[R] graph bugs using R on MAC

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-09-18 4:53 PM, Don McKenzie wrote:
> I think it's actually dev.copy2eps()
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> or at least that one works.

Right, sorry.

Duncan Murdoch

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> On 18-Sep-11, at 1:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>> 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
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>>>
>>> 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
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> phone: 206-732-7824
> dmck at uw.edu
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