Re: Org babel R Help

[Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com>]

Dan

> So I believe we do understand the situation. The question is how do we
> improve it. First the facts:

> As for improvements, it is tempting to think that
>
> 1. org-babel should automatically insert the ATTR_LaTeX line in
>   accordance with :width and :height when creating latex output.
> 2. org-babel should keep existing ATTR_LaTeX lines attached to their
>   respective figures (contra Graham's thread linked above)
>
> I've had a brief look and doubtless all this is possible. It brings up
> issues of what units :width and :height are assumed to be in (e.g. just
> because R uses inches for pdf() doesn't mean that anyone else thinks
> that's a sensible decision). And we have to be a careful because it
> means altering what org-babel considers to be part of its results.

Now that I know what is happening I am reasonably content with it as it is.

However, it would seem to make sense that :width and :height commands
"should" relate to the image size in the compiled pdf.  And it would
also make sense that these should be consistently in mm, regardless of
file format.

Graham