On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:08:00 -0600 Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:54, Mahmoud K. Okasha wrote: > > Greetings List, > > > > I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get > > many plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in > > a Microsoft Word document. Can any one tell me the easiest method of > > having copies of the R-graphs in the Word documents? > > > > Best regards > > Mahmoud > > > A couple of different ways: > > 1. If you actually need to see the graphics within the document and/or > send the .doc file to someone who needs to be able to see the plots as > they appear, then you should use Windows Metafile format images. Since > these are vector format files, you can resize them as required on your > pages. Bitmapped images (ie .BMP/.PNG) will distort as you resize them. > You can generate these by plotting directly into an R plot window and > then copy (ie. right mouse click) and paste into the Word document using > the Windows clipboard, or generate the plot files directly using the > win.metafile() function. > > 2. If you will be generating hard copies of the documents using a PS > printer, you can generate the graphics as EPS files using the > postscript() function. Word can import EPS files, but you will see them > only as place holders in your document (ie. a frame box) since Word > cannot actually interpret the images for display. Keep in mind that the > function has very specific argument requirements to enable the > generation of EPS files. These include: Newer versions of Word will display postscript and pdf images on-screen, so I think these are the way to go. -Frank > > horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = "special" > > With these in place, you can then generate your plots to the EPS files > and import them into your Word documents. > > See ?postscript for more information. > > If this is something that you will be doing with a level of repetition, > you might want to look into using Sweave, which combines LaTeX and R to > automate formatted report generation. More information is here: > > http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/ > > There were also a couple of articles in RNews: > > Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part I: Mixing R and LaTeX. R News, > 2(3):28-31, December 2002. > > Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part II: Package vignettes. R News, > 2(2):21-24, October 2003. > > > Frank Harrell also has a document at: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Harrell-statcomp-notes.pdf > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
