On 31/07/2014, 7:49 AM, John McKown wrote: > OK, I'm probably using the wrong tool for this, but I'm doing > everything else in this project in R, so I'm looking at how to do this > too. I create a number of graphs using ggplot2. I use the png() > function before the print(..graph.variable..) in order to create a PNG > file which can be embedded in a MS PowerPoint display. This is working > fairly well. > > But what I need now is a way to create a png file which is basically a > "picture" of what you might see when you simply display a data.frame > using Rstudio or even from the command prompt. I considered just using > sink() and print(), but I have two problems. First, it doesn't create > a PNG output. Second, I need to put in text annotations, title, etc. > So what I need might be what a "geom_data.table" would produce, if > such a thing existed in ggplot2. > > Is there another "plotting" package which will do such a weird thing? >
One way is to use your OS to do a screen (or window) capture, and save the result to a .png file. There are also functions like textbox() in the plotrix package which allow you to display multiple lines of text; use capture.output() to save what was printed, then textbox() to add it to a plot. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
