Thanks, Steve; this works. albeit in a new way.  Some notes for the  
user follow.

Simple-documentation copy-paste:
I must start the device this way to avoid difficulties (see quartz())
quartz(bg="white")

Then I may copy and open up the file in Preview;
from there, I may copy again and paste into Word or into
Graphicconverter.  (These probably accepted picts earlier, from
what I could infer from the FAQ).

If one does not set the background, then the Preview version looks
fine, but the image pasted elsewhere has black lettering (usually)
on a black background.  Hence quartz(bg="white")

Higher quality pdf's:
I assume I should do a quartz.save to get a high quality image
if I think that the image may head to publication.
When I do this, the image opens correctly in Preview, but it appears
that some images (a filled-contour color field overlaid by labelled  
contours
in plot4d.r) do not display correctly in my old Adobe application (a  
second
whiting out, maybe?.
If I do not set bg="white" then both are drawn correctly from the  
quartz.save()
version.

regards, Bob

On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Steve Revilak wrote:

>> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:41:07 -0700
>> From: Robert Chatfield <Robert.B.Chatfield@nasa.gov>
>> To: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] Difficulties with quartz() device and clipboard?
>> I have difficulties with the R-GUI or the R Quartz Window,
>>
>> At one time it was easy to copy to the clipboard and then paste into
>> another document, e.g. Microsoft Word or GraphicConverter or ...
>> No more.  There is a "Copy" item available (in dark letters, not  
>> greyed)
>> in the Edit menu, but nothing goes into clipboard. I can verify this
>> with
>> several applications that have a "Show Clipboard" menu item.
>> This was great for recording results of exploratory sessions without
>> a generating a large number of files.
>
> This might have something to do with what Word is willing to accept.
> With Mac OS 10.5.5, R 2.7.2, GUI 1.25 (5217), I can say
>
>   plot(1:10, 1:10, type="l")
>
> R opens a quartz window and displays the line plot.  From there I can
> copy the plot to the clipboard (via Cmd-C or Edit > Copy); after the
> copy, I'll switch to Preview.app and press Cmd-N ("New from
> clipboard") within Preview; Preview creates a new pdf document with
> the plot.
>
> Perhaps word doesn't handle pasting of pdf data?
>
>
>> Items saved by quartz.save do not seem to open correctly in Preview
>> or Acrobat.  I assume that one must close the Quartz device with
>> dev.off()  Maybe I just need an example of quartz.save in action.)
>
>   plot(1:10, 1:10, type="l")
>   quartz.save("foo.png");
>   quartz.save("foo.pdf", type="pdf");
>
> After running these three commands, you should have a pdf named
> "foo.pdf" and a png named "foo.png".
>
> HTH.
>
> Steve

Dr. Robert Chatfield
Earth Sciences, MS 245-5
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035    USA

Ph: 650-604-5490  FAX 650-604-3625

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