[Tikzdevice-bugs] Single file with tikzDevice

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Yes, I think that is the implication.  The basic desire is to be able to
store the output in a variable (which might possibly be manipulated) and
then print it out or embed it in a file later.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Cameron Bracken
<cameron.bracken at gmail.com>wrote:

> Now if you call tikz with an empty file name
>
> tikz('')
>
> it will dump to the console. It cant be called with no file name
> because that will default to the standard Rplots.tex file. The changes
> are on Github.
>
> As for the rawConnection functionality, I do not know much about this
> sort of R programming but I suppose it would be possible. Am I right
> in thinking that afterward you might then
>
> print(rc)
>
> to output to a file?  It would certainly not be trivial on the C level
> but I believe it could be done.
>
> -Cameron
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > img.raw is intended to represent the name of a raw R object, not a file
> > name.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <
> ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> And yet another comment.  There has been a recent discussion about
> >> allowing devices to output to connections on r-devel and apparently this
> has
> >> languished for years despite Jeffrey Horner posting code which would
> have
> >> allowed it 3 years ago.  Would it be a problem for tikz to handle that
> even
> >> if the other devices don't?  For example, Hadley Wickham had posted this
> >> proposed functionality:
> >>
> >> rc <- rawConnection("raw.img", "w")
> >> png(rc)
> >> plot(1:10)
> >> dev.off()
> >> close(rc)
> >>
> >> where in this case png() would be replaced with tikz().
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
> >> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Great. Just one other related comment.  I think I would likely use the
> >>> tikz(..., append=TRUE) style but some might prefer to use sink.  That
> could
> >>> be done if it were possible to write the output to stdout like this.
> If
> >>> its not a problem you might want to add that too.
> >>>
> >>> sink("myfile.tex")
> >>> cat("\\documentclass{article}
> >>> \\usepackage{tikz}
> >>> \begin{document}
> >>> \\begin{figure}[ht]
> >>> \\centering
> >>> ")
> >>> # "" or "stdout" or default writes to stdout
> >>> tikz(width=5, height=5)
> >>> x <- rnorm(100)
> >>> plot(x)
> >>> dev.off()
> >>> cat("\\caption{caption}
> >>> \\label{fig:inline}
> >>> \\end{figure}
> >>> \\end{document}
> >>> ")
> >>> sink()
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Cameron Bracken
> >>> <cameron.bracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I liked this idea so much that I implemented it right away. You can
> >>>> get it from the master branch of my github fork until the next release
> >>>>
> >>>> http://github.com/cameronbracken/rtikzdevice/network
> >>>>
> >>>> Instead of "append" i called it "console."  It works nearly as you
> >>>> envisioned:
> >>>>
> >>>> cat("\\documentclass{article}
> >>>> \\usepackage{tikz}
> >>>>
> >>>> \\begin{document}
> >>>> \\begin{figure}[ht]
> >>>> \\centering
> >>>> ", file = "myfile.tex")
> >>>>
> >>>> sink("myfile.tex",append=T)
> >>>> tikz(console=T, width=5, height=5)
> >>>>
> >>>> x <- rnorm(100)
> >>>> plot(x)
> >>>> quiet <- dev.off()
> >>>> sink()
> >>>>
> >>>> cat("\\caption{caption}
> >>>>
> >>>> \\label{fig:inline}
> >>>> \\end{figure}
> >>>> \\end{document}
> >>>> ", file = "myfile.tex", append = TRUE)
> >>>>
> >>>> The following will now produce a self contained tex file:
> >>>>
> >>>> \documentclass{article}
> >>>> \usepackage{tikz}
> >>>> \usepackage[nogin]{Sweave}
> >>>> \begin{document}
> >>>> \begin{figure}[ht]
> >>>> \centering
> >>>> <<inline,echo=F,results=tex>>=
> >>>>
> >>>>  require(tikzDevice)
> >>>>  tikz(console=T,width=5,height=5)
> >>>>    x <- rnorm(100)
> >>>>    plot(x)
> >>>>  dummy <- dev.off()
> >>>>
> >>>> @
> >>>> \caption{caption}
> >>>> \label{fig:inline}
> >>>> \end{figure}
> >>>> \end{document}
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -Cameron
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> >>>> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> > If you able to provide this feature (i.e. incorporate the tikz tex
> >>>> > directly
> >>>> > into the current file rather than writing out a temporary file and
> >>>> > reading
> >>>> > it back in) then that would be useful since one of the key potential
> >>>> > advantages of tikz and pgf are the ability to have a single file
> >>>> > rather than
> >>>> > multiple files.  Perhaps an append=TRUE argument like this:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > cat("\\documentclass{article}
> >>>> > \\usepackage{tikz}
> >>>> > \begin{document}
> >>>> > \\begin{figure}[ht]
> >>>> > \\centering
> >>>> > ", file = "myfile.tex")
> >>>> > tikz("myfile.tex", width=5, height=5, append = TRUE)
> >>>> > x <- rnorm(100)
> >>>> > plot(x)
> >>>> > dev.off()
> >>>> > cat("\\caption{caption}
> >>>> > \\label{fig:inline}
> >>>> > \\end{figure}
> >>>> > \\end{document}
> >>>> > ", file = "myfile.tex", append = TRUE)
> >>>> >
> >>>> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Cameron Bracken
> >>>> > <cameron.bracken at gmail.com>
> >>>> > wrote:
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Interesting Idea.  This should work with plain Sweave.  It is not
> >>>> >> very
> >>>> >> efficient and would be very slow for large files since it must
> write
> >>>> >> out then read in then write out.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> \documentclass{article}
> >>>> >> \usepackage{tikz}
> >>>> >> \usepackage[nogin]{Sweave}
> >>>> >> \begin{document}
> >>>> >> \begin{figure}[ht]
> >>>> >> \centering
> >>>> >> <<inline,echo=F,results=tex>>=
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>  require(tikzDevice)
> >>>> >>  tf <- tempfile()
> >>>> >>  tikz(tf,width=5,height=5)
> >>>> >>    x <- rnorm(100)
> >>>> >>    plot(x)
> >>>> >>  #Suppress "null device 1" from being printed
> >>>> >>  dummy <- dev.off()
> >>>> >>  cat(readLines(tf),sep='\n')
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> @
> >>>> >> \caption{caption}
> >>>> >> \label{fig:inline}
> >>>> >> \end{figure}
> >>>> >> \end{document}
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> -Cameron
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> >>>> >> <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> >> > I would like to create a single file that has my latex and
> >>>> >> > tikzDevice
> >>>> >> > output
> >>>> >> > as opposed to outputting the tikZ output into a separate file and
> >>>> >> > using
> >>>> >> > \input .  The latex would be generated using cat statements in R.
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> > Can that be done?  If so, can you provide a small example.
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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