Unfortunately the win.metafile() device does not support semi-transparent colours, which I like using.
In my experience, the best way to get R graphics into Word is to use compressed high-resolution tiff, like this: word.tif = function(filename="Word_Figure_%03d.tif", zoom=4, width=17, height=10, pointsize=10, ...) { if (!grepl("[.]ti[f]+$", filename, ignore.case=TRUE)) filename = paste0(filename,".tif") tiff(filename=filename, compression="lzw", res=96*zoom, width=width, height=height, units='cm', pointsize=pointsize, ...) } word.tif('test') plot(rnorm(100)) dev.off() Now drag the file test.tif into your Word document. Sure, it's a bitmap format rather than a vector format, but the quality is excellent and the file sizes are still quite small. None of the vector formats works as well as this. cheers, Steve ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.