TUGboat 46:1 (2025)
The Communications of the TeX Users Group

Title: A DVI driver for R

Summary: converting DVI files into R objects, supporting LaTeX fragments as labels and annotations.

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Author: Paul Murrell (orcid)

Publication: TUGboat volume 46, number 1 (2025), pages 101–103

DOI (this page): 10.47397/tb/46-1/tb142murrell-xdvir
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Category: Software & Tools

Difficulty: Intermediate

Abstract: The R package xdvir provides a DVI driver that converts DVI files into R objects. This makes it possible to integrate LaTeX fragments as labels and annotations within R plots.

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