[R] R and Power Point

[Michael Kubovy]

Hi Duncan,

On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> 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.

I'll do so soon, and let the list know. Before that, please ask, and  
I'll send you the .Rnw and .tex files.

> 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.

\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]

This works, but has side effects on the appearance of my theme (I use  
Warsaw) that I don't know yet how to deal with.
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