Erin, Another option. I'm saving R screens as postscript files, opening them in Ghostview and copying and pasting to blank slides in Powerpoint. I can't detect any deterioration in quality. Convenient when you have a lot of slides to make in a hurry. Ghostview and Ghostscript (required to run Ghostview) are freeware on the web.
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 2/14/2006 9:08 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote: > >> On Feb 14, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Erin Hodgess wrote: >> >>> I'm using R in a time series class. ... I have decided to put >>> together Power Point slides for the teaching. ... I am currently >>> saving the R screen as WMF files and inserting them into >>> PowerPoint. While this works, it seems that there might be a >>> simpler method. >>> >> Hi Erin, >> >> For presentations I use LaTeX with beamer.cls and Sweave to access R. >> The results are legible and attractive. The method is not simple at >> first, since you must understand how to use beamer.cls and Sweave. >> But once you're in production mode, it's a delight. >> >> I'd be happy to share templates. >> > > Please put some up on the web somewhere! I'm just learning beamer, and > don't need it for R right now, but I'm sure I will eventually. > > Duncan Murdoch > > P.S. How do I add page numbers to slides? I see in the manual a > section called "The Headline and Footline" that apparently tells me how > to do it using an option "[page number]", but I don't see where to put that. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > -- Terry W. Schulz Applied Statistician 1218 Pomegranate Lane Golden, CO 80401 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (303) 526-1461 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
