I can't test this here (I now have Word XP/2002) but my colleagues have Word 97 on their college-supplied service (yes, really!) and despite not being able to see a preview, they can quite happily import eps files I have produced during the course of my work. Admitedly a blank box in word is not the most user-friendly thing to work with, but this old version of Word will happily deal with the postscript produced.
Having used Word 2000 and XP during the course of writing a PhD thesis that used R-generated plots extensively, I know first hand how easy it is to deal with eps files from R in Word.
My setup involves using Ghostscript/GSView on Windows XP to view the eps plots I produce in R and then import them into Word XP (the eps filter now seems to add a preview for you), but if you have an earlier word version, GSView can easily add a preview for you.
Also, onefile = TRUE does *not* produce eps files.
I quote from ?postscript :
onefile: logical: if true (the default) allow multiple figures in one
file. If false, generate a file name containing the page
number and use an EPSF header and no `DocumentMedia' comment.It is a bit confusing, but onefile = TRUE is for producing multi-page postscript documents, i.e. put all the plots to follow into a single postscript doc with (possibly) more than a single page.
I know a number of people have suggested using a windows metafile. Whilst this might offer a solution to your problem, unless you are using a very-out-of-date version of Word I cannot see the advantages of using metafiles over postscript.
HTH
Gavin
Karim Elsawy wrote:
it seems that word can not read encapsupalted postscripts generated by R I used this command
postscript("output.eps",horizontal=F,onefile=TRUE) since onefile=TRUE produces an encapsualted postscript
actually what I'm trying to do is to insert the postsript file into a word document since other formats like jpeg and bmp do not reproduce the same quality like postscript formats
any suggestions are very much appreciated Karim
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