R: Coerce to PDF

as.pdf {latexpdf}

R Documentation

Coerce to PDF

Description

Coerces to PDF. Generic, with methods for character, document, and data.frame.

Coerces to PDF from document. Makes a system call to 'pdflatex'. Extra arguments ignored.

Coerces character to document and then to PDF. Extra arguments passed to as.document.character and as.pdf.document.

Usage

as.pdf(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'document'
as.pdf(
  x,
  stem = "latexpdf-doc",
  dir = ".",
  clean = TRUE,
  ignore.stdout = FALSE,
  ignore.stderr = FALSE,
  show.output.on.console = TRUE,
  ...
)

## S3 method for class 'character'
as.pdf(x, stem, ...)

Arguments

`x`	object
`...`	passed arguments
`stem`	the stem of a file name (no extension)
`dir`	output directory
`clean`	whether to delete system files after pdf creation
`ignore.stdout`	passed to `system`
`ignore.stderr`	passed to `system`
`show.output.on.console`	passed to `system`

Value

the output file path (invisible)

Methods (by class)