[R] Are there any guis out there, which will allow editing of the graph?

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Aug 5 09:00:06 CEST 2008


On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Dieter Menne wrote:

> Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Microsoft Word's graphics editor can edit R graphics saved in
>> metafile format, wmf.  That includes x axis labels, etc.
>>
>
> In theory, yes, in practice: not really. Vertical texts are horizontal after
> editing, and clipped points may magically re-appear.

Agreed (at least with Word <= 2003), but there are other emf editors which 
do work.  (I used to use a shareware one that is I believe now 'metafile 
companion'.  Mainly to check win.metafile output that Word garbled.)

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