how to present a table in powerpoint?
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned "Sweave". I've never used it, but it seems to solve exactly the general problem of R-to-postscript formatting that Jonathan Li sees a use for. However, it works via TeX/LaTeX rather than by commercial software. http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/Sweave-manual-20021007.pdf - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Jonathan Li wrote:
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