Bryan,
My apologies if I confused the thread. I was simply offering up a very
good alternative to the MS Office suite, regardless of what one might
do in the MS-Word environment, as you offered. I wasn't suggesting the
only way (or even the best way necessarily) to resolve Adam's Word
issues was going the iWork direction. I find the MS products overly
featurized & sluggish and I don't care to add to MS's coffers. And,
BTW, Presentations using Keynote are superior in my estimation than
those with PowerPoint.
Regards,
Tom
On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote:
Maybe I missed something in an earlier post about this, but if not
this
might help. The whole process seems simpler than some of the fixes
I've seen
suggested.
I am using Office 2004 (with all available updates), on OS 10.4.11,
and the
latest versions of R.
If you use the png or pdf output in R to create your graphic, then
in Word
or PowerPoint you can use Insert -> Picture -> From File to place a
graphic
no problem at all, then resize it as needed. Then you can double
click on
the graphic to size, position, float, fade etc.
I find Office does not always size upwards well, but shrinks things
just
fine. So make the diagrams larger to begin with.
And the png device has the option for a transparent background,
which can be
useful when doing a scientific poster in PowerPoint.
R to a png or pdf works well for web diagrams too.
Completed example at:
http://fs6.depauw.edu:50080/~hanson/ResearchPages/PlantMetabPages/SrE
Poster.pdf
HTH Bryan
On 6/6/08 9:06 AM, "Thomas Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Adam,
I would suggest getting iWork for $79
(http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/software?mco=MTE2ODk
) from Apple, which includes Pages, Numbers, & Keynote
(wordprocessor,
spreadsheet, presentation software, respectively). They are fully
compatible with MS Office products. I have had no problem going
between the Apple products and MS. For instance, one can directly
open
MS-Word docs in Pages and save directly to MS-Word. I work in a PC/
WS-
Windows environment and have not experienced any problems of
significance.
Regards,
Tom
On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Adam Kleczkowski wrote:
Having just switched over from Windows to Mac, I am struggling with
incorporating pictures generated by R into MSOffice documents. A
quick read through archives and google suggests that this is almost
hopeless for MS Word 2004 (any input is bitmapped). What is the
current situation with MS Office 2008?
I am using R and Word in Windows under Parallels at the moment, but
would like to switch fully to Mac soon.
Many thanks,
Adam
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