How to put nice R graphics into powerpoint

Well I really appreciate the efforts and the willingness to help of 
people on this list, but I agree that the pict format has no future 
and I'd hate to see Stefano's precious time being invested in working 
on a R device for it, considering that I can produce png with 
acceptable quality, bot with R when R11 is running and in Illustrator, 
by choosing export instead of save for office or save for the web. All 
three of these export options save to png format, but only the first 
one allows you to specify resolution. By cranking up resolution (150 
instead of the default 72) I managed to create png graphics that do 
not look fuzzy in PowerPoint.

I am very surprised, however, that all those picture converters out 
there only export to raster pict even when the starting format is 
vector.

I don't really wish to see any effort going into a wmf device for R 
either, as wmf does not "always" import well into PowerPoint anyway. 
Some weird things often happen.

And finally, I don't intend to stay on a 1998 vintage PB for much 
longer, I'll buy my own computer in the next few months if my employer 
does not allow one. And then I can try Keynote!

Denis

I would really like to find a solution to this, though, even if Denis 
can live without it!  Some colleagues insist on exchanging Powerpoint 
slides directly when we are preparing a presentation.

I usually create a PDF with R, and import it into Powerpoint for the 
mac.  The results are fuzzy and not good.  I don't have Illustrator.  
For final presentations I sometimes send the pdf to a colleague who has 
Illustrator, who converts it for me.

For weeks I've been intending to find a better way to do things, 
assuming that there must already be a solution in the R community and 
that I had just been too lazy to track it down.  If, instead, the 
actual state of things is that R cannot produce output that can be used 
well in the world's most popular presentation software, then I think 
this should be a fairly high-priority item.  (Of course, I say this 
from the standpoint of someone who will not actually be doing the work 
to implement a change, so, easy for _me_ to say)!

Anyway, I would love to see some kind of solution for this, though I 
don't know what that solution might be.

To those of you who continually work to make R better: thanks!

--Phil Price