High resolution plots

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:

Gabor Grothendieck schrieb:

On 7/13/05, Luis Tercero <luis.tercero at ebi-wasser.uni-karlsruhe.de> 

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")

Searching for acronyms is not usually a good idea.  Searching for
`metafile' should work (on Windows).

Note that R can produce Windows metafiles only on Windows, which is why it
is not in `An Introduction to R'.