[R] R integration with Microsoft Powerpoint

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, John Sorkin wrote:

> Please allow me an unusual question.
>
> Is there any way that R can be closely integrated with a Microsoft
> Powerpoint presentation? I would like to embed R calculations in
> Powerpoint so that I will start Powerpoint, be prompted to enter some
> parameters, and an R function will run and return values and graphs.

R can be driven by COM, so if Powerpoint supports COM (possibly via VBA)
this would be possible.  It is likely, as other MS Office applications do.

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