Getting plots from R to powerpoint

Question

I use "ggplot2" to create beautiful plots in R. I want to distribute them; I use "ReporteRs" get them into PowerPoint.

When I do this the formatting is somehow lost (no scale ability). To keep scaleability, I use the "svglite" package to save my plot as a ".svg" file.

Now; How do I get the ".svg" file into the PowerPoint?

Answer 1

Just an update also with regard to support for SVG in Powerpoint: SVG is fully supported in Office 2019 as well as in the Office 365 versions of PowerPoint 2016.

Regarding rmarkdown/knitr - you can also use that to export to Powerpoint.

And there is also the option to use my export package, to export to Powerpoint using the correct scaling (specified width & height), as mentioned in my other answer.

Finally, there is also the possibility to export to SVG, and to use e.g. Inkscape to have it converted to EMF, which you can import in all versions of Powerpoint.