[R] legend not appearing in Word document

[Robert Baer]

> On 12/12/2010 8:59 AM, Tim Clark wrote:
>> I need help with using graphics in Word 2007 that will later be converted 
>> into a
>> pdf document.  I have tried several formats and found that I get the best
>> quality of graphics using .wmf, .eps format, but when I convert it to 
>> .pdf I get
>> a bunch of lines across the figures.  I also tried .tiff and .png but 
>> they give
>> me much lower quality.  The best quality that converts to pdf appears to 
>> be
>> .eps.  However, I have now come across a problem with my figure legends. 
>> For
>> some reason the legend is visible in R but not in Word.  Does anyone know 
>> why a
>> legend in .eps format won't work in Word, or how I can get it to work?  I 
>> have
>> made an example of the legend below that you should be able to save as 
>> .eps and
>> paste into Word as an example.  I would appreciate any help you can offer 
>> on
>> getting the legend in .eps format to work, or on other formats that may 
>> be
>> better for Word and pdf files.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>        library(plotrix)
>>        Satelite.Palette<-
>> colorRampPalette(c("blue3","cyan","aquamarine","yellow","orange","red"))
>>        mycol<-Satelite.Palette(ceiling(5000+1))#Max relative angle 
>> multiplied by
>> 100 to give larger range.  Max is 3.1415, rounded up to 3.15 plus one.
>>        col.labels<-round((seq(0,5000,length.out=5)/1000),1)
>>        plot(0, 0, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="")   #New plot for 
>> legend
>>        color.legend(0,0,1,1,col.labels, mycol, align="rb", gradient="y") 
>> #Adds
>> legend
>>
>>
>
> I don't have Word 2007, but when I execute that code I get a legend either 
> on screen or in an EPS file.  So this looks like a Word bug; you'll need 
> to talk to Microsoft.
>
> Duncan Murdoch

For what it is worth, I just tried importing the .eps legend into Word 2010 
and it seemed to work fine suggesting that MS may have updated their .eps 
import driver with that version of Office?

Rob