Need(?) way to create a "picture" (or "plot") of a data.frame
I think it may be time for you to rethink your process. Yes there are ways to do what you are asking, but when you start wanting to combine graphs, tables, r output and descriptions and annotations then it is time to look into tools like knitr. With knitr you can create a template file with R code to create the graphs of interest as well as tables and output and include any descriptions/annotations that you want. Then you process the template into a report with the code being run for you and the results inserted into the final report. With knitr, and the pandoc program, you can generate the final report as a pdf file, html file, MS Word document, and others. I don't think that you can generate Power Point directly yet, but you can generate pdf or html slides (better than Power point anyways) or put everything of interest into a Word document that can then be easily cut and paste to Power Point. This will require some investment up front and a shift in the way you are doing things, but in the long run it can be a real time and effort saver. On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:49 AM, John McKown
<john.archie.mckown at gmail.com> wrote:
OK, I'm probably using the wrong tool for this, but I'm doing everything else in this project in R, so I'm looking at how to do this too. I create a number of graphs using ggplot2. I use the png() function before the print(..graph.variable..) in order to create a PNG file which can be embedded in a MS PowerPoint display. This is working fairly well. But what I need now is a way to create a png file which is basically a "picture" of what you might see when you simply display a data.frame using Rstudio or even from the command prompt. I considered just using sink() and print(), but I have two problems. First, it doesn't create a PNG output. Second, I need to put in text annotations, title, etc. So what I need might be what a "geom_data.table" would produce, if such a thing existed in ggplot2. Is there another "plotting" package which will do such a weird thing? -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown
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