Remember you have to think a bit differently to spreadsheet based graphs but the flexibility is great. Hence, for my graphs I use Veusz - it's a great mulit-platform free tool by Jeremy Sanders (see his twenty minute video if you've got some time!). However, as I have lots of data I prefer filtering down to a subset, and need the ability to have interactive flexibility other than R`s script based manner. One could analyse it with R, preferably with a front-end like R studio. You can see in the files menu the two uploaded files which make up the figure. Click on the example below to open in the writeLaTeX editor. Hence, the graphic is stored in the PDF and the text is rendered by latex. The pdf_tex file is a tex wrapper produced by Inkscape as a means to strip out text from an SVG diagram when saving PDF. I use pdf_tex files for my graphs, and since the writeLaTeX team added support so I could use them in my documents here, I wanted to share how this style of graph is achieved so others can produce beautiful vector based graphics. I'm hoping writeLaTeX will enable a more collaborative means to write documents and ensure the latest version is worked upon.

Despite emailing the pdfs for review to my supervisors, after submitting things still got missed. I'm a PhD student and recently had to write a couple of papers for a conference.

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