Question

I’m trying to make a presentation on ggplot2 graphics using beamer + sweave. Some slides should have two columns; the left one for the code, the right one for the resulting graphic. Here’s what I tried,

\documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
\usepackage{/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/share/texmf/tex/latex/Sweave}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}% AMS standards
\usepackage{listings}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\usecolortheme{dove}
\usecolortheme{rose}
\SweaveOpts{pdf=TRUE, echo=FALSE, fig=FALSE, eps=FALSE, tidy=T, width=4, height=4}

\title{Reproducible data analysis with \texttt{ggplot2} \& \texttt{R}}
\subtitle{subtitle}
\author{Baptiste Augui\'e}
\date{\today}
\institute{Here}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
  \frametitle{Some text to show the space taken by the title}
\begin{columns}[t] \column{0.5\textwidth}
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\column{0.5\textwidth}  
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
<<fig=TRUE>>=
grid.rect(gp=gpar(fill="slateblue"))
@
\end{figure}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]
  \frametitle{Some text to show the space taken by the title}
\begin{columns}[t] 
  \column{0.5\textwidth}
<<echo=TRUE,fig=FALSE>>=
library(ggplot2)
p <- 
qplot(mpg, wt, data=mtcars, colour=cyl) + 
  theme_grey(base_family="Helvetica")
@
\column{0.5\textwidth}  
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
<<fig=TRUE>>=
print(p)
@
\end{figure}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

And the two pages of output.

I have two issues with this output:

• the echo-ed sweave code ignores the columns environment and spans the two columns

• the column margins for either graphic are unecessarily wide

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

• As for the first question, the easy way is to set keep.source=TRUE in SweaveOpts. For more fancy control, see fancyvrb and FAQ #9 of Sweave manual.
• The width of the figure can be set by \setkeys{Gin}{width=1.0\textwidth}

here is a slight modification:

... snip ...

\SweaveOpts{pdf=TRUE, echo=FALSE, fig=FALSE, eps=FALSE, tidy=T, width=4, height=4, keep.source=TRUE}

\title{Reproducible data analysis with \texttt{ggplot2} \& \texttt{R}}

... snip ...


\begin{document}
\setkeys{Gin}{width=1.1\textwidth}

... snip...

<<echo=TRUE,fig=FALSE>>=
library(ggplot2)
p <- 
  qplot(mpg,
        wt,
        data=mtcars,
        colour=cyl) +  
  theme_grey(base_family=
             "Helvetica")
@