Message-ID: <42F376A8.6040309@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-08-05T14:24:40Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: High resolution plots
In-Reply-To: <42F373D7.8080606@biostatistic.de>
Knut Krueger wrote:
>
> Gabor Grothendieck schrieb:
>
>
>>On 7/13/05, Luis Tercero <luis.tercero at ebi-wasser.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Dear R-help community,
>>>
>>>would any of you have a (preferably simple) example of a
>>>presentation-quality .png plot, i.e. one that looks like the .eps plots
>>>generated by R? I am working with R 2.0.1 in WindowsXP and am having
>>>similar problems as Knut Krueger in printing high-quality plots. I have
>>>looked at the help file and examples therein as well as others I have
>>>been able to find online but to no avail. After many many tries I have
>>>to concede I cannot figure it out.
>>>
>>>I would be very grateful for your help.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If you want the highest resolution use a vector format,
>>not a bitmapped format such as png. See:
>>
>>http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/04/02/1168.html
>>
>
> The link is now broken, and I did not copy the hints.
> Does anybody knows if it its available at any other location?
>
> And I tried to find
>
>
>>Thanks for the pointer! .wmf is far superior, I was just in the dark
>>about the format and R's ability to produce it (An Introduction to R
>>"Device drivers" does not mention it and I had obviously missed the
>>deciding last two words in "?device" 'windows')
>>
>
> the wmf command but there is nothing to find with help.search("wmf")
See ?win.metafile
Uwe Ligges
> with regards
> Knut Krueger
>
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