[R] graph bugs using R on MAC

[Don McKenzie]

I think it's actually dev.copy2eps()

or at least that one works.


On 18-Sep-11, at 1:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist
>>>> Pacific WIldland Fire Sciences Lab
>>>> US Forest Service
>>>>
>>>> Affiliate Professor
>>>> School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment
>>>> CSES Climate Impacts Group
>>>> University of Washington
>>>>
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>




Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist
Pacific WIldland Fire Sciences Lab
US Forest Service

Affiliate Professor
School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment
CSES Climate Impacts Group
University of Washington

phone: 206-732-7824
dmck at uw.edu