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Tuesday, July 9 • 11:20 - 11:40
TeX Typesetting in R Graphics: the {Xdvir} Package - Paul Murrell, The University of Auckland

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Text labels are essential components of any data visualisation, whether as titles, captions, axis labels, or general annotations. While it is possible to render text in R graphics, there are only limited facilities for typesetting text. As a simple example, there is no way in R graphics to lay out a paragraph of text with full justification. This talk will describe the {xdvir} package for R, which fills this gap by merging the sophisticated typesetting capabilities of the TeX system with R graphics.
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Paul Murrell

Associate Professor, The University of Auckland
Paul Murrell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at The University of Auckland. He is a member of the R-core development team, mostly active in the graphics system, and has developed several extension packages for R, also mostly related to graphics and data... Read More →

Tuesday July 9, 2024 11:20 - 11:40 CEST
Salzburg I
  Data visualisation
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