[R] R and Power Point

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 2/14/2006 9:08 AM, Michael Kubovy wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>> I'm using R in a time series class. ... I have decided to put  
>> together Power Point slides for the teaching. ... I am currently  
>> saving the R screen as WMF files and inserting them into  
>> PowerPoint.  While this works, it seems that there might be a  
>> simpler method.
> 
> Hi Erin,
> 
> For presentations I use LaTeX with beamer.cls and Sweave to access R.  
> The results are legible and attractive. The method is not simple at  
> first, since you must understand how to use beamer.cls and Sweave.  
> But once you're in production mode, it's a delight.
> 
> I'd be happy to share templates.

Please put some up on the web somewhere!  I'm just learning beamer, and 
don't need it for R right now, but I'm sure I will eventually.

Duncan Murdoch

P.S.  How do I add page numbers to slides?  I see in the manual a 
section called "The Headline and Footline" that apparently tells me how 
to do it using an option "[page number]", but I don't see where to put that.