[R] Export a plot/figure to excel or word?

[Aurelie Cosandey Godin]

Thank you Michael,

Yes it appeared odd to me too... I'll email them back to verify.
Thanks!

Aurelie
On 2012-03-14, at 4:56 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:

> Hmmm, that seems an odd request: how could one make a plot in Excel
> natively (excepting ASCII art)?
> 
> Perhaps write and ask them if they can take any image formats? R
> exports to most of them quite nicely: png, eps, jpeg, bitmap, svg,
> etc.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Aurelie Cosandey Godin <godina at dal.ca> wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I have created forest plots using the package "meta" that I submitted as pdf for publication. I just received an email from the editor asking me if I could send these files in an Excel or MS Word format such that they can treat them as tables with box plots.
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>> I am not sure if I can do this... Is this possible? I've tried the capture.output command, but I get a blank MS Word document.
>> 
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>> Best,
>> 
>> Aurelie
>> 
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