> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirecti

> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirection goes away. With knitr, my data goes directly into the paper repository, and then my Makefile has something like this: %.tex: graphs/%.Rnw Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$?')" The nice thing is exactly what the authors recommend: it's much easier to enforce a standard appearance across all the figures, and automatically incorporate more recent data into the paper as part of the compilation process. [1] https://yihui.name/knitr/ https://yihui.name/knitr/