Hi,

On Apr 26, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Wang, Fei wrote:

> I am a newbie for R software. Recently I met a problem when I'm attempting to 
> export R graphs to PowerPoint directly. Since we generate hundreds of graphs 
> and want to export them to PPT at one time, is there any good solution to 
> this?

Depends on how motivated you are. Here's one solution. It will take some effort 
to get going and requires a few programming skills, but once set up you can 
repeat the process painlessly.

First, you need to use Apple's Keynote. The Keynote file format is a regular 
zipped directory containing an XML file and the various media (e.g. pdfs, 
pngs). The XML format is documented here:

http://developer.apple.com/appleapplications/keynote-apxl.html

Given that and some trial and error, one can write a python script (or similar) 
to take a folder of graphs that you output from R and convert them into a 
Keynote presentation.

If you don't want to use Keynote as your final format, you can export the file 
into a huge PDF or a PowerPoint file.

And if you get something working and are willing to share, I'm sure several 
people on the list would be interested in seeing a working script!


How you intend to keep your audience awake for a presentation of hundreds of 
graphs is another problem entirely. :)


Cheers,
Demitri

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Demitri Muna

Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University

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