Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:41:07 -0700
From: Robert Chatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Difficulties with quartz() device and clipboard?
I have difficulties with the R-GUI or the R Quartz Window,
At one time it was easy to copy to the clipboard and then paste into
another document, e.g. Microsoft Word or GraphicConverter or ...
No more. There is a "Copy" item available (in dark letters, not greyed)
in the Edit menu, but nothing goes into clipboard. I can verify this
with
several applications that have a "Show Clipboard" menu item.
This was great for recording results of exploratory sessions without
a generating a large number of files.
This might have something to do with what Word is willing to accept.
With Mac OS 10.5.5, R 2.7.2, GUI 1.25 (5217), I can say
plot(1:10, 1:10, type="l")
R opens a quartz window and displays the line plot. From there I can
copy the plot to the clipboard (via Cmd-C or Edit > Copy); after the
copy, I'll switch to Preview.app and press Cmd-N ("New from
clipboard") within Preview; Preview creates a new pdf document with
the plot.
Perhaps word doesn't handle pasting of pdf data?
Items saved by quartz.save do not seem to open correctly in Preview
or Acrobat. I assume that one must close the Quartz device with
dev.off() Maybe I just need an example of quartz.save in action.)
plot(1:10, 1:10, type="l")
quartz.save("foo.png");
quartz.save("foo.pdf", type="pdf");
After running these three commands, you should have a pdf named
"foo.pdf" and a png named "foo.png".
HTH.
Steve
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