On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:15:08PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am revising a paper that I am a co-author of. The figures are plots > generated from R but at the moment I do not have the R code that generates > them. > > As this is time critical I would like to slightly abuse the list by asking > whether anyone knows how to extract from MS Word into a stand-alone > graphics file a plot that was pasted into Word from R (probably as a > Windows Metafile, but possibly as a bitmap).
Open the doc file in OpenOffice, save in sxw format (openoffice's old native format), unpack the file with unzip and find the figure in the resulting directory. I'm not sure if and how this works with the new odt format used by openoffice now, but sxw will work. cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Tel. +49-8161-71 2131 Dept. of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics Fax. +49-8161-71 2186 Technical University of Munich Science Center Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany and Institute for Bioinformatics / MIPS Tel. +49-89-3187 3675 GSF - National Research Center Fax. +49-89-3187 3585 for Environment and Health Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1 85764 Neuherberg, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel ______________________________________________ R-help@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