Getting LaTeX into R Plots

Question

I would like to add LaTeX typesetting to elements of plots in R (e.g: the title, axis labels, annotations, etc.) using either the combination of base/lattice or with ggplot2.

Questions:

Is there a way to get LaTeX into plots using these packages, and if so, how is it done?
If not, are there additional packages needed to accomplish this.

For example, in Python matplotlib compiles LaTeX via the text.usetex packages as discussed here: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/UsingTex

Is there a similar process by which such plots can be generated in R?

Admin · Answer

I just have a workaround. One may first generate an eps file, then convert it back to pgf using the tool eps2pgf. See http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/eps2pgf/

user_8581495 · Answer

h <- rnorm(mean = 5, sd = 1, n = 1000) hist(h, main = expression(paste("Sampled values, ", mu, "=5, ", sigma, "=1")))

Taken from a very help article here https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/codefragments/greek_letters/

Getting LaTeX into R Plots

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