officer package function for adding an R plot to a presentation

Question

I am working on transfering my plots to a presentation using officer package in R.

A ggplot can be transferred using the ph_with_gg() function but what is the function to transfer normal R plots? I am not finding any such function in the package.

These are few of the resouces that I am refering:

officer CRAN package

PowerPoint presentations generation

Your help will be appreciated!

Regards

Answer 1

Save the plot you want to output as, say, a png file then use the ph_with_img function to place the image into your presentation.

The on-line help for the Powerpoint component of officer shows how to do this - see https://davidgohel.github.io/officer/articles/powerpoint.html which you already referred to in your post.

If you don't know how to save a plot as an image please see (for example) this thread: how to save a plot as image on the disk

Answer 2

I have found a way of doing this using officer and rvg packages together.

rvg also allows us to edit our plots on the slides.

The simple code to save a plot on slides is

ppt <- ph_with_vg(ppt, code = plot(), type = "body")

Answer 3

If you would like to export R graphs to Powerpoint you can also use the wrapper package export built on top of officer that just came out on CRAN, see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/export/index.html and for demo https://github.com/tomwenseleers/export

Typical syntax is very easy and works for either base R, ggplot2 or lattice graphs, eg for a ggplot2 plot (but syntax is the same for base R plot, just call it after you made the plot):

install.packages("export")
library(export)
library(ggplot2)
qplot(Sepal.Length, Petal.Length, data = iris, color = Species, 
      size = Petal.Width, alpha = I(0.7))     
graph2ppt(file="ggplot2_plot.pptx", width=6, height=5) 

You can also use it to export to Word, Excel, Latex or HTML and you can also use it to export statistical output of various R stats objects.