[R] graph bugs using R on MAC

[bby2103 at columbia.edu]

Yes, I'm positive I had the right window highlighted, and I have shown  
this problem to lots of people including tech staff, to get no  
answers. So I suspect it's probably a somewhat obscure problem.

Duncan, thanks for the lead on the new group. I will follow up on  
that. What is the copy2eps? Is it to Excel? Do you get that option in R?

Bonnie Yuan.

Quoting Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:

> On 11-09-18 3:48 PM, Don McKenzie wrote:
>>
>> On 18-Sep-11, at 12:38 PM, bby2103 at columbia.edu wrote:
>>
>>> This is has been bugging me for a long time. Nobody around me seems
>>> to have this problem. I hope someone on the forum could help me.
>>>
>>> When I generate a R graph and want to bring the image into Word. I
>>> cannot copy and paste it like many of my classmates can do. The
>>> "Select" in Edit menu have all options grayed out.
>>
>> You want "Copy", not "Select".  Then Paste into your word processor.
>
> That doesn't work for me with OpenOffice (I don't have Word).
> copy2eps(file="some.eps") does work, along with Insert | Picture | From
> file...
>
>>
>>> So what I ended up doing is to save it as pdf file and bring it
>>> into Word. But if I use "Identify" in the Plot statement, there
>>> will be values labels on the graph when you click on the
>>> observation. For some reason, these labels don't show up in the pdf
>>> file.
>
> They did show up with copy2eps().  I didn't try copy2pdf(); my copy of
> OpenOffice doesn't recognize .pdf as a picture type.
>
> But Bonnie will probably get a better answer on the R-sig-mac list.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>>
>>> So the last resort I have is prinscreen, which always have
>>> irrelevant things showing.
>>>
>>> I've tried updating R/OS and all softwares on my MAC, but nothing
>>> seems to do anything. I have OX 10.6.8. Does this problem sound
>>> familiar to anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Bonnie Yuan
>>>
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