[R] ON MAC, how to copy a plot on to Word document?

[stephen sefick]

word 2004
post script  (plot created with postscript()) does not work but pdf
graphics work on the mac.  I suggest not copying and pasting because,
in my expreience, the output is not as good as pdf et al.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr
<f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Word in Office 2003 (and I assume Office 2007) can insert encapsulated
> postscript with no problems on Windows, and display the graphic fine. Does
> this not work with Mac?  Doesn't dragging a file into Word lose the full
> resolution of postscript?
>
> Frank
>
>
> Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, copy/paste between R and Word 2008 works perfectly.
>> It
>> doesn't work at all for Word 2004...so that's at least ONE improvement
>> (the
>> only one I've seen) in versions of Word.
>>
>> --Adam
>>
>> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Stefan Evert wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 7 Sep 2008, at 16:57, John Kane wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think you need to save the plot and import it into Word.  AFAIK you
>>>> can only copy and paste a plot in Windows.
>>>
>>> In the R.app GUI, you can click the plot window and then select "Copy"
>>> from the "Edit" menu (or press Command-C). You can now past the plot into
>>> most Mac applications (e.g. Apple's own iWork suit), but it doesn't work in
>>> Word 2004 -- so it's really a problem with Word.
>>>
>>>> Have a look at ?png  (There are other formats available)
>>>
>>> Or, much better, a PDF file by selecting "Save As ..." from the "File"
>>> menu (Shift-Command-S). You should then be able to drag and drop the PDF
>>> file into Word.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Stefan
>>>
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