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Make a Excel chart by R code

4 messages · John, Jim Lemon, David Stevens +1 more

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Hi,

   I understand that there're many great graphic packages in R (e.g.,
ggplot2) . Nevertheless, my office uses Excel extensively. Is there any
package in R that produces Excel graphs by R codes? Thanks!
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Hi jpm miao,
What sort of "Excel" graphs do you want to produce? There are a few
varieties, you know.

Jim
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:54 PM, jpm miao <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:

            

  
  
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By this, do you mean you want to use R to send data to Excel and have 
Excel create the graph without your intervention, or to use R to create 
a graph that looks like one of those that Excel produces?

David
On 4/14/2015 9:54 PM, jpm miao wrote:

  
    
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
Oh dear what a pity Cryer, Jonathan D. ?Problems with Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics.? In Joint Statistical Meetings, 2001. http://www.amstat.org/sections/srms/proceedings/y2001/proceed/00470.pdf.


Unless you need to have the graphs updating all the time in Calc would it not be just as handy to produce the charts/graphs in R and just import them into your final product.

A little bit more work but far superiour graphics and easier maintenance of the graphs.  It is much easier to change one line (or one word of code) than to start frenzied clicking all over again.

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