Dear R People: I'm using R in a time series class. This class is being broadcast live to 2 remote sites via closed circuit TV. My people at the remote sites are having a terrible time seeing the computer screen as it is broadcast(resolution issues). 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. Does anyone have any suggestions for the Power Point, please? Thanks so much! R Version 2.2.1 Windows Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
Hello Erin, Have you tried changing the font to a large, bold face font in the GUI preferences? This may take care of the resolution issues without needing to use power point, and give you the flexibility of a live R session. Best, Randy On 2/14/06 1:46 AM, "Erin Hodgess" <hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu> wrote:> Dear R People: > > I'm using R in a time series class. This class is being > broadcast live to 2 remote sites via closed circuit TV. > > My people at the remote sites are having a terrible time > seeing the computer screen as it is broadcast(resolution issues). 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. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for the Power Point, please? > > Thanks so much! > R Version 2.2.1 Windows > Sincerely, > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Randall C Johnson Bioinformatics Analyst SAIC-Frederick, Inc (Contractor) Laboratory of Genomic Diversity NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B Bldg 560, Rm 11-85 Frederick, MD 21702 Phone: (301) 846-1304 Fax: (301) 846-1686 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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. _____________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology USPS: P.O.Box 400400 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Parcels: Room 102 Gilmer Hall McCormick Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Office: B011 +1-434-982-4729 Lab: B019 +1-434-982-4751 Fax: +1-434-982-4766 WWW: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/
"Erin Hodgess" <hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu> wrote in message news:200602140646.k1E6kgWk005773 at gator.dt.uh.edu...> 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. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for the Power Point, please?Instead of saving to a file first, have you tried cutting from R and pasting directly to PowerPoint? File | Copy to Clipboard | As a Metafile Paste onto PowerPoint page In PowerPoint, the graphic has no background. Set a background color (if desired): Right click on graphic | Format Picture | Colors and Lines | Fill | Change from "No Fill" to white, or desired background color Sometimes resizing even with a metafile is a problem in PowerPoint (or Word). Drawing the "right" size in R before cutting and pasting often solves that problem. For some very complicated graphics (e.g., a large heatmap), use Copy to Clipboard | As a Bitmap to avoid delays in redrawing the graphic whenever the page is shown. efg
Erin, From an Rgui graphics window (windows() device), Ctrl-W will save the current graph to the clipboard as a metafile; Ctrl-C will save as a bitmap. In PPt, Ctrl-V will paste either into a blank spot on a slide. The metafile is a Windows vector spec that will be sharper and smaller. However, I have had trouble when viewing them on different PCs with different fonts installed. Bitmaps will get around that but have all the usual limitations of ... bitmaps. MHP Erin Hodgess wrote on 2/14/2006 1:46 AM:> Dear R People: > > I'm using R in a time series class. This class is being > broadcast live to 2 remote sites via closed circuit TV. > > My people at the remote sites are having a terrible time > seeing the computer screen as it is broadcast(resolution issues). 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. > > Does anyone have any suggestions for the Power Point, please? > > Thanks so much! > R Version 2.2.1 Windows > Sincerely, > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Michael H. Prager, Ph.D. Population Dynamics Team NOAA Center for Coastal Habitat and Fisheries Research NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Center Beaufort, North Carolina 28516 USA http://shrimp.ccfhrb.noaa.gov/~mprager/