[R-SIG-Mac] Office integration

[Thomas Adams]

Bryan,

My apologies if I confused the thread. I was simply offering up a very  
good alternative to the MS Office suite, regardless of what one might  
do in the MS-Word environment, as you offered. I wasn't suggesting the  
only way (or even the best way necessarily) to resolve Adam's Word  
issues was going the iWork direction. I find the MS products overly  
featurized & sluggish and I don't care to add to MS's coffers. And,  
BTW, Presentations using Keynote are superior in my estimation than  
those with PowerPoint.

Regards,
Tom

On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Bryan Hanson wrote:

> Maybe I missed something in an earlier post about this, but if not  
> this
> might help. The whole process seems simpler than some of the fixes  
> I've seen
> suggested.
>
> I am using Office 2004 (with all available updates), on OS 10.4.11,  
> and the
> latest versions of R.
>
> If you use the png or pdf output in R to create your graphic, then  
> in Word
> or PowerPoint you can use Insert -> Picture -> From File to place a  
> graphic
> no problem at all, then resize it as needed.  Then you can double  
> click on
> the graphic to size, position, float, fade etc.
>
> I find Office does not always size upwards well, but shrinks things  
> just
> fine.  So make the diagrams larger to begin with.
>
> And the png device has the option for a transparent background,  
> which can be
> useful when doing a scientific poster in PowerPoint.
>
> R to a png or pdf works well for web diagrams too.
>
> Completed example at:
> http://fs6.depauw.edu:50080/~hanson/ResearchPages/PlantMetabPages/SrE
> Poster.pdf
>
> HTH Bryan
>
> On 6/6/08 9:06 AM, "Thomas Adams" <tadams1 at cinci.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Adam,
>>
>> I would suggest getting iWork for $79
>> (http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/software?mco=MTE2ODk
>> ) from Apple, which includes Pages, Numbers, & Keynote  
>> (wordprocessor,
>> spreadsheet, presentation software, respectively). They are fully
>> compatible with MS Office products. I have had no problem going
>> between the Apple products and MS. For instance, one can directly  
>> open
>> MS-Word docs in Pages and save directly to MS-Word. I work in a PC/ 
>> WS-
>> Windows environment and have not experienced any problems of
>> significance.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tom
>>
>> On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Adam Kleczkowski wrote:
>>
>>> Having just switched over from Windows to Mac, I am struggling with
>>> incorporating pictures generated by R into MSOffice documents. A
>>> quick read through archives and google suggests that this is almost
>>> hopeless for MS Word 2004 (any input is bitmapped). What is the
>>> current situation with MS Office 2008?
>>>
>>> I am using R and Word in Windows under Parallels at the moment, but
>>> would like to switch fully to Mac soon.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Adam
>>>
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