R help - Jul 2009 - Dump plots to powerpoint?

Hi,

Is it possible to dump a series of plots directly into a powerpoint presentation
(as is possible in Splus)?

Thank you,
Thomas



      
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I generate PDF images and then rasterise using imagemagick to large,
high quality JPG files. Then manually insert into powerpoint. Former
two can definitely be automated, I'm sure the latter insertion could
be automated with judicious use of scripting if really necessary.

2009/7/7 Thomas <aiktocke at yahoo.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to dump a series of plots directly into a powerpoint
presentation (as is possible in Splus)?
>
> Thank you,
> Thomas
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Check out the R2PPT package on CRAN.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Thomas<aiktocke at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to dump a series of plots directly into a powerpoint
presentation (as is possible in Splus)?
>
> Thank you,
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
> ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

Hi,

On windows, you can use a COM client (with packages like rcom or RDCOMClient) to
control powerpoint from R and insert the generated image using powerpoint's
object model. You can either use the clipboard or an intermediate image file
saved to disk.

Not hard to do, but this seems to be already implemented in package RPPT
recently released to CRAN, so have a look at it:
http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/web/packages/R2PPT/index.html

About the image format, using windows metafiles allows you to double-click the
image in powerpoint, "ungroup", and then edit each of its components
(text, lines, etc.)

Regards,

Enrique
 

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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:38:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas <aiktocke at yahoo.com>
Subject: [R] Dump plots to powerpoint?
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Hi,

Is it possible to dump a series of plots directly into a powerpoint presentation
(as is possible in Splus)?

Thank you,
Thomas



      
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