[R] PowerPoint

[Berton Gunter]

I've always assumed that this was a rendering problem in the MS application,
as the reappearance of the missing lines on re-sizing shows that that the
necessary information **is** in the imported .wmf file, right?

-- Bert 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Sundar 
> Dorai-Raj
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 7:55 AM
> To: Johannes Ranke
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Marc Bernard
> Subject: Re: [R] PowerPoint
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> (Sorry to highjack the thread, but I think the OP should also 
> know this)
> 
> One of the plots Marc mentions is xyplot. Has anybody else on 
> this list 
> had a problem with lattice and win.metafile (or Ctrl-W in the 
> R graphics 
> device)? I will sometimes import wmf files (or Ctrl-V) with lattice 
> graphics into powerpoint and notice some of the border lines are 
> missing. I can re-size the plot to make the lines reappear 
> but have to 
> find just the right size to make it look right. This seems to be a 
> problem with PPT, XLS, and Word. I never have this problem with 
> traditional graphics (e.g. plot.default, etc.).
> 
> I'm using Windows XP Pro with R-2.3.1 and lattice-0.13.8, though I've 
> also experienced the problem on earlier versions of R and earlier 
> versions of lattice.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --sundar
> 
> Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > Dear Bernard,
> > 
> > if you use MS Powerpoint, it seems likely to me that you 
> are using the
> > Windows version of R. Are you aware of the fact, that you can just
> > right-click on any graph and copy it to the clipboard (copy 
> as metafile
> > or similar).
> > 
> > That way you get a vectorized version of the graph, which 
> you can nicely
> > paste into Powerpoint and edit.
> > 
> > Johannes
> > 
> > * Marc Bernard <bernarduse1 at yahoo.fr> [060623 13:40]:
> > 
> >>Dear All,
> >>   
> >>  I am looking for the best way to use graphs from R (like 
> xyplot, curve ...)   for a presentation with powerpoint. I 
> used to save my plot as pdf and after to copy them as image 
> in powerpoint but the quality is not optimal by so doing.
> >>   
> >>  Another completely independent question is the following: 
> when I use "main"  in the  xyplot, the main title is very 
> close to my plot, i.e. no ligne separate the main and the 
> plot. I would like my title to be well distinguished from the plots.
> >>   
> >>  I would be grateful for any improvements...
> >>   
> >>  Many thanks,
> >>   
> >>  Bernard,
> >>   
> >>    
> >>
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