R, export a file to keynote

Question

Is there a way to export a graph made in R in a way that keynote can read the objects of the graph as separate objects and not like a single image?

Usually I export graphs in R as pdf but then Keynote import them as a single object.

How about exporting graphs in separate files, and then read each file in Keynote? — kohske, Oct 07 '11 at 23:34
I think not in the way you wish. An R graph can be only exported in (vector/raster) image, which cannot be altered in keynote/powerpoint etc. — daroczig, Oct 08 '11 at 00:36
try exporting in svg and converting it to keynote shapes http://www.christianholz.net/svg2keynote_svg_to_keynote.html — baptiste, Oct 08 '11 at 02:43
svg2keynote didn't work for me (all the plot elements come out as black-filled boxes) using either grDevices::svg() or ggsave(). I've got the '08 release of Keynote, so that might be the root of the problem. — kmm, Oct 08 '11 at 16:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '11 at 21:21

1

As suggested in the comments: try exporting in svg and converting it to keynote shapes. Several tools exist, for instance http://christianholz.net/svg2keynote_svg_to_keynote.html (or through illustrator) and http://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/zusman/dave/svg2key/

Note: I have not been able to test this idea successfully, they seem to depend on the version of OSX/Keynote)

answered Oct 08 '11 at 21:21

baptiste

75,767
19
198
294

To convert the svg to keynote I used Eazydraw. – danilinares Oct 10 '11 at 02:06

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

It's not clear whether you;

a) Want to put one object into another application, and edit it, In which case, try saving it as an svg object that can then be edited in a suitable application like Inkscape (see Create Editable plots from R)

b) Want to create a series of objects and then put them into another application individually, in which case I would either i. use at Sweave which can create a pdf document, but will also create an individual pdf/eps file for each object or ii. Look at odfweave which works like sweave but can create an OpenDocument .odt that could be opened in LibreOffice.

R, export a file to keynote

2 Answers2

Linked