[R] Producing "Editable" Graphs for PowerPoint

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Paul Hewson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> (apologies, I'm not entirely sure whether this question is about R or my
> limitations with PowerPoint).   I've submitted a paper (which has been
> accepted) but the journal now require me to submit graphs that are
> "editable in PowerPoint".   I would be grateful for suggestions as to
> how I should do this.
> 
> The best route seems to be to copy-and-paste the figures from the
> windows() device as a metafile.   However, on converting the graphs to
> an editable format and "ungrouping" them, it appears that every line,
> tickmark, dot and dash is treated as a separate entity by PowerPoint
> (for example even the horizontal and vertical parts of "+" are
> separated).   Alternatively, reading in the files from a saved metafile
> is even more problematic: having used par(new = TRUE) I have a set of
> layered graphs and all but the last one dissapear once I open the
> graphic for editing.
> 
> Is this normal for a figure "editable by PowerPoint" or am I doing
> something horribly wrong somewhere?    
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Paul Hewson
> Lecturer in Statistics
> School of Mathematics and Statistics
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> 
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> 
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I had hoped that journals engaged in reproducible research by now.

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University