Greetings, Thank you Gabor for your great explanation. I feel ok with it.
Best regards.. Mahmoud . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 2:04 AM Subject: Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document > > > Perhaps some additional explanation is in order. There are > two basic classes of format: > > - vector graphics such as windows metafile (wmf) and svg where > the actual structure of the drawing is stored. Editing these > can be done with no loss of resolution and you can access > the individual components of the plot, the titles, the points, > etc. directly. > > - bitmapped (also called raster) graphics such as jpg and png > where the drawing is stored as a sequence of pixels. You can't > access the individual objects in a plot with raster graphics since > the image is just a set of pixels. Resizing involves a loss of > resolution. > > Windows metafiles are the preferred format for Word. They > are vector graphics, not raster, and they can be edited from > within Word directly -- you don't need another editing program. > This should be much easier than using bmp or jpg together with > Photoshop. > > You can either generate wmf files by right clicking the plot and > copying to the clipboard or using R code like this: > > win.metafile("/myfile.wmf") > plot(1:10) > dev.off() > > followed by Insert | Picture | File in Word. > > In Paul's case he is generating his images in Linux, where I gather > Windows metafiles are not available, but in your case everything > is on Windows so you should not have that problem. > > --- > Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:38:37 +0200 > From: Mahmoud K. Okasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ Add to Address Book | Block Address | Report as Spam ] > To: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document > > > Hello, > > I first would like to thank all of you for your great ideas. However, I > agree with Paul particularly in that the answer is more complicated than > other people make it seem when you have many graphs. I am trying all the > ideas. It seems that all of them work but with some difficulties. I have > Windows 2000 and MS Office 200. It seems to me that the easiest way of > solving the problem is through saving the file in Bmp or Jpeg format and > edit it in a graphic program such as Photoshop then insert it in the file. I > will continue trying all methods to find the easiest. > > Best regards > Mahmoud > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:47 PM > Subject: Re: [R] R: Including R plots in a Microsoft Word document > > > > I have wrestled with this problem a lot. I use Linux, coauthors use > > Windows, and the eps files I make from R don't work with MS Word. Well, > > the don't ever have "previews" and they sometimes won't print at all > > when I use CrossOver Office with MS Office 2000 in Linux. My coauthor > > says he can often wrestle my eps files into word on his system with > > Office 2003. People keep telling me to use gsview to insert the preview > > panes into eps files, and that does work, but more than one half of the > > time my system creates eps files that look significantly worse than the > > originals. Sometimes it inserts a blank page at the top of the eps or > > it reshapes a figure. I don't care enough about MS to try to track that > > down. It just pisses me off. > > > > > > As a result, I think the answer is more complicated than other people > > make it seem. > > > > I don't think it does any good to output a pdf file because, as I > > learned yesterday, MS Word users can't import a pdf file into a doc. > > > > Clearly, if you are an MS windows user of R, you can save graphics in > > the windows meta format (wmf) (or is it enhanced meta format, emf?). > > That will go more or less seamlessly into Word. If you have a chance to > > boot into Windows, and you really must make an image that works well > > with Word, then you should boot into Windows, run your R in there and > > make the wmf file. > > > > If you are a Linux/Unix user, and you are too proud to use Windows, the > > problem is much more difficult to deal with. > > > > If you are ABSOLUTELY SURE that your image does not need to be resized > > in any way, you could output from R into a picture type format, such as > > png. As long as the image does not need to resized in any way, that > > will be fine. If it is resized, then all bets are off. > > > > I find that the R output to the xfig format is quite good and I can edit > > files in xfig. You can edit those files, add text, so its very very > > handy. So right now I'm looking for a good bridge from xfig format to > > Word. But I just started investigating that. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:54:33PM +0200, Mahmoud K. Okasha wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Greetings List, > > >> > > >>I am conducting some large simulations using R. As a result, I get many > plots but I'm having some trouble with including some of them in a Microsoft > Word document. Can any one tell me the easiest method of having copies of > the R-graphs in the Word documents? > > >> > > >> > > > > > >R can produce at least PostScript, PDF, png, jpeg/jpg > > > > > >see: > > > > > > help(postscript) > > > help(pdf) > > > help(png) > > > help(jpeg) > > > > > >I don't use word, for me the PostScript format (more precisely > Encapsulated > > >PostScript/.eps) is the best/more easy/powerful format if you don't have > thousands of > > >points or lines :-) > > > > > >por instance, to print a simple plot: > > > > > >postscript(file="somefile.eps"); > > > > > >plot(whatever); > > > > > >dev.off(); <<---- Important > > > > > >other formats are similar > > > > > >regards > > > > > > Ulisses > > > > > > > > > Debian GNU/Linux: a dream come true > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > >"Computers are useless. They can only give answers." 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