On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, dadrivr <dadr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to make some publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft > Word, but I am having trouble creating high-quality plots that are supported > by Microsoft Word. > > If I use the R plot function to create the figure, the lines are jagged, and > the picture is not of high quality (same with JPEG(), TIFF(), and PNG() > functions). I have tried using the Cairo package, but it distorts my dashed > lines, and the win.metafile results in a picture of terrible quality. The > only way I have succeeded in getting a high quality picture in a file is by > using the pdf() function to save the plot as a pdf file, but all my attempts > to convert the image in the pdf file to a TIFF or other file type accepted > by Word result in considerably degraded quality. Do you have any > suggestions for creating publication-quality plots in R that can be placed > in Word documents? What packages, functions (along with options), and/or > conversions would you use? Thanks so much for your help!
Those are all bitmapped formats. For best quality you want a vector-based format. This link here discusses the difference: http://web.archive.org/web/20070221152152/http://www.stc-saz.org/resources/0203_graphics.pdf Microsoft's metafile formats are vector formats that work well in Word. Try savePlot with type = "wmf" or type = "emf" as the argument or right click a graphic in R and choose one of the metafile options. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
