how to present a table in powerpoint?

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Subject: [R] how to present a table in powerpoint?


Hi,

I have a nicely printed table of results generated by R's 

print(myresult)

where myresult is a "data frame".

I am trying to put this table into a powerpoint slide for 
presentation without re-typing and re-formating, i.e., present 
it as it is in the R window. This saves time when there are a 
lot of tables to be presented.

I tried 

sink("myresult.txt")
print(myresult)
sink()

resulting text file looks nice, but how can I insert it into 
powerpoint without losing its formatting? When I think more 
carefully about it, it seems to me that we need a way to 
convert this text presentation into graphical presentation 
such as postscript, then it would be easy to paste it into 
powerpoint without losing its formatting. 

I suspect that this is a problem many other may also face 
sometimes. After doing searching in R-help archive with 
keywords like "powerpoint", "presentation", I came up with 
many entries about presenting graphs in powerpoint, but not 
one about presenting tables of numbers.

Your help is highly appreciated.
Jonathan