slides in linux R - OFF TOPIC REPLY

In S-Plus Windows you can transform graphics to Powerpoint very
easily, in R Windows you can use enhanced metafiles (.emf) and
Powerpoint almost as easy. Is there a simular way with R in
Linux to transform to the presentation program in StarOffice or
OpenOffice or are you stuck with the pdf device?

This isn't really an answer.  But for an ordinary talk - without
movies or audio - I have made pdf slides with Latex, including
eps output from R, like this:

\documentclass[landscape]{slides}
\usepackage{color,graphicx}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
...
\end{slide}
and so on.

(The "color" allows fancy ppt-like overlays, etc.)  Then, when I
format this, I do the following.  (This is the batch file I run,
so $1 stands for the name of the tex file.)

latex $1
dvips -Ppdf -T 11in,8.2in $1
ps2pdf $1.ps

Finally, when I show it, I use
xpdf -fullscreen

When I gave a local talk this way, one of my colleagues, knowing
of my antipathy toward Microsoft, said, "You've given in!"  He
thought it was PowerPoint, but actually it took about 1/10 of the
disk space that ppt would take.

I think it would be better still if I used pdflatex, but I
haven't tried that because lately I've been doing slides in html
using http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/900/slides.css . (Any of
the htm files in that directory will work with it.  Some are
quite old and ugly, however.)  This uses a feature of css, namely

html, body {
  height: 100%;
  overflow: visible;
}

This does not work in most browsers but does work in Mozilla and
recent versions of Netscape.  In a way this is an advantage for
classes because the students print out the slides with IE and
don't have to waste paper with all the white space.

Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page:            http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
R page:               http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/