[R] graph bugs using R on MAC

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-09-18 4:11 PM, bby2103 at columbia.edu wrote:
> Yes, I'm positive I had the right window highlighted, and I have shown
> this problem to lots of people including tech staff, to get no
> answers. So I suspect it's probably a somewhat obscure problem.
>
> Duncan, thanks for the lead on the new group. I will follow up on
> that. What is the copy2eps? Is it to Excel? Do you get that option in R?

copy2eps() is a function in R.  Try ?copy2eps for details.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> Bonnie Yuan.
>
> Quoting Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 11-09-18 3:48 PM, Don McKenzie wrote:
>>>
>>> On 18-Sep-11, at 12:38 PM, bby2103 at columbia.edu wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is has been bugging me for a long time. Nobody around me seems
>>>> to have this problem. I hope someone on the forum could help me.
>>>>
>>>> When I generate a R graph and want to bring the image into Word. I
>>>> cannot copy and paste it like many of my classmates can do. The
>>>> "Select" in Edit menu have all options grayed out.
>>>
>>> You want "Copy", not "Select".  Then Paste into your word processor.
>>
>> That doesn't work for me with OpenOffice (I don't have Word).
>> copy2eps(file="some.eps") does work, along with Insert | Picture | From
>> file...
>>
>>>
>>>> So what I ended up doing is to save it as pdf file and bring it
>>>> into Word. But if I use "Identify" in the Plot statement, there
>>>> will be values labels on the graph when you click on the
>>>> observation. For some reason, these labels don't show up in the pdf
>>>> file.
>>
>> They did show up with copy2eps().  I didn't try copy2pdf(); my copy of
>> OpenOffice doesn't recognize .pdf as a picture type.
>>
>> But Bonnie will probably get a better answer on the R-sig-mac list.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>>>
>>>> So the last resort I have is prinscreen, which always have
>>>> irrelevant things showing.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried updating R/OS and all softwares on my MAC, but nothing
>>>> seems to do anything. I have OX 10.6.8. Does this problem sound
>>>> familiar to anyone?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Bonnie Yuan
>>>>
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