[BioC] Embedding R output in Word

Sean Davis seandavi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 02:26:24 CEST 2010


On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Chintanu <chintanu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I wish to have an exact-copy (i.e., the way R-window displays) of a
> portion of my on-screen R-commands and their output on an existing Word
> document, how do I do it ? I have tried with windows "print-screen" command,
> but the resolution becomes poor in the destination document.
>
> Also, for plots, I usually save them as .tiff, and then "import" them to the
> Word document - although the size of the document starts getting bigger very
> quickly. Is it the right way to do ?

Hi, Chintanu.

Graphics can take up a fair bit of disk space, yes.

You might want to look as Sweave (for conversion of R code and text to
latex and PDF.  There is also odfWeave that can take a document with
woven R code into an OpenOffice document.

Sean



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