The tikzDevice package provides a new graphics device for R which enables direct output of graphics in a LaTeX-friendly way. The device output consists of files containing instructions for the TikZ graphics language and may be imported directly into LaTeX documents using the \input{} command. The beta version of tikzDevice is now available here. An [...]
Development of the R package tikzDevice has been underway for about a month now. This package allows for the output of R graphics as TikZ commands. Charlie Sharpsteen and I have gotten it into an alpha stage. There is no real documentation but there is plenty of comments in the code. We have a R-forge [...]
I recently had to write a memo. After playing around a bit, I decided on the amsart documentclass. I wrote a style file to define the memo header; I think it looks good with the general style of the amsart class. The contents of the style file are: \ProvidesPackage{memo} \RequirePackage{setspace} \newcommand{\memotopline}[2]{{% \noindent\sc #1}{\begin{quote}#2\end{quote}}} \newenvironment{memoheader}[1] { [...]
The Blog post Online LaTeX is a great overview online of the services available for typesetting LaTeX. There are a lot of sites providing inline equation compilation which one is the best in terms of quality and ease of use. I wanted to give a visual comparison of all of the service which provide inline [...]
I finally got around to tweaking some of the the default Beamer themes that I like and putting together my own template. It is very subdued but stylish with a bit of flare. I does not include a footer but does include a running section header from the miniframes outertheme. Other than that it contains [...]
Sweave is an awesome utility for including the output of R code in a LaTeX document which I have started using regularly. TeXShop is my favorite editor/viewer for LaTeX under Mac OS X for many reasons. One of which is the speed of the edit -> compile -> view process which it enables. Therefore, I [...]
The xtable package in R can output R data as latex tables. Used in conjunction with Sweave it is possible to automatically generate tables in a report. Needless to say this provides a really appealing possibility of never typing data into a table again. The only problem is that I think the default latex tables [...]
You may recall this quote from Bruce Lee: Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can [...]
I recently came across a neat trick which allows precompiling of latex headers (where all the packages are loaded). For a small headers, the loading of style files takes a trivial amount of time. But, for a large documents with alot of \usepackage{} statements, this can take up to 10 seconds (which adds up if [...]