[R] graph bugs using R on MAC

[bby2103 at columbia.edu]

Cool! Don showed me another trick--use (n= ) in Identify. The active  
window will come back to console after the specified amount of clicks,  
you will be able to execute more commands in console.

Thank you!

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

> On 11-09-18 5:15 PM, bby2103 at columbia.edu wrote:
>> Don and Duncan,
>>
>> That function works, up to the same point where I can save pdf into
>> Word using the menu. But when I use Identify function together with
>> plot function, the Quartz window has to be closed before I can go back
>> the console to execute "copy2eps" function. But by then, I don't have
>> an active device anymore. So it beats the purpose.
>
> You stop the identify function by right-clicking in the graphics
> window. I have my one-button Mac set up to do this with a two-finger
> tap, you may have it set some other way.  (I think Mac calls this a
> "secondary tap".)  After that dev.copy2eps should copy the identifiers
> too.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>> I'm using Word 2004. Upgrading Word is an idea. I will definitely look
>> into it, although I didn't think those who didn't have this problem
>> necessarily had a higher version of Word.
>>
>> Bonnie Yuan
>>
>> Quoting Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> On 11-09-18 4:53 PM, Don McKenzie wrote:
>>>> I think it's actually dev.copy2eps()
>>>>
>>>> or at least that one works.
>>>
>>> Right, sorry.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 18-Sep-11, at 1:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 11-09-18 4:11 PM, bby2103 at columbia.edu wrote:
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> copy2eps() is a function in R.  Try ?copy2eps for details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist
>>>>>>>> Pacific WIldland Fire Sciences Lab
>>>>>>>> US Forest Service
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Affiliate Professor
>>>>>>>> School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment
>>>>>>>> CSES Climate Impacts Group
>>>>>>>> University of Washington
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don McKenzie, Research Ecologist
>>>> Pacific WIldland Fire Sciences Lab
>>>> US Forest Service
>>>>
>>>> Affiliate Professor
>>>> School of Forest Resources, College of the Environment
>>>> CSES Climate Impacts Group
>>>> University of Washington
>>>>
>>>> phone: 206-732-7824
>>>> dmck at uw.edu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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