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Adding a Flowchart

Raw LaTeX and R both support extensive capability for generating pictures. Here we use the diagram package to draw a flow chart, something that is a common requirement in documentation. The simple example shows the process of converting a .Rnw file using knitr to a LaTeX file which can then be processed by pdflatex to generate the .pdf file. The result can be seen in Figure 22.2.

# Load package from the local library into the R session.

library(diagram)

# Identify some names for the nodes of the flowchart.

names   <- c(".Rnw", ".tex", ".pdf")

# Set up the connectivity data.

connect <- c(0,       0,          0,
             "knitr", 0,          0,
             0,       "pdflatex", 0)

# Constract a connectivity matrix and plot the flowchart.

matrix(nrow=3, ncol=3, byrow=TRUE, data=connect) %>%
  plotmat(pos=c(1, 2), name=names, box.col="orange")

Figure 22.2: The knitr process to generate a pdf.

There are many more possibilities provided by diagram and if interested you can explore demo(plotmat) and demo(plotweb).