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Journal Quality R Graphs?

3 messages · Werner Wernersen, Chris Bergstresser, Uwe Ligges

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Thanks for your answer, Adai!

Being a newbie, I finally tried a lot of things and
wasted a stack of paper in 
order to get a black & white printer printable chart
of good quality.

My experiences are the following:
* do never (!) use the alpha correction color settings
for transparency if the 
graph is to be printed (alpha correction also works
with few formats, e.g. PDF 1.4)
* the library(gstat), bpy.colors() color palette
prints nicely in grey
* there is a small difference in output from saving
the graphs to PS or PDF with 
PS looking slightly better
* set the line width with par(lwd=)
* set the line style with par(lty=)
* in the print dialog before printing: check if the
automatic scaling option is set

After doing all of this, my chart looks rather
acceptable now.
The R version used was R 2.0.1 on win2k and printing
was done on a HP LJ 4M Plus.

Thanks again for your answers!

Best,
   Werner
Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote:
following hit :
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/03/0202.html
which suggests
white on the same
graph. This will
Dying printer toners
actually is.
wrote:
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http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
8 days later
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Hi all --

    I tried loading a data file with the following command:

 > data = read.table("filename.txt", header = TRUE, sep = ",")

    This appeared to work fine, except it silently skipped 400 records 
(out of 1200).  It turns out, some of the text fields included quotes, 
and I needed to use 'quote = ""'.
    Why wasn't there an error message?  Is there some way to enable one?

-- Chris
1 day later
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Chris Bergstresser wrote:

            
Can you please specify a very short example (5 lines or so) that you 
think fails without appropriate error message?

Uwe Ligges