Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-16 Thread dadrivr
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys. It looks like TIFF may be the easiest solution, as I wouldn't have to worry about printing to a postscript printer or converting to PDF (when using EPS). That way, I could send the Word file as is to all coauthors (important for collaboration - i.e., track c

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-16 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 08:25 -0700, dadrivr wrote: > Thanks for your help, guys. I'm looking to produce a high-quality plot (no > jagged lines or other distortions) with a filetype that is accepted by > Microsoft Word on a PC and that most journals will accept. That's why I'd > prefer to stick wit

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta, PhD
On 9/15/10 10:38 AM, dadrivr 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

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Difford
>> I'd prefer to stick with JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or the like. I'm not sure EPS would fly. Preferring to stick with bitmap formats (like JPEG, TIFF, PNG) is likely to give you the jagged lines and other distortions you profess to want to avoid. EPS (encapsulated postscript, which handles vector+bitm

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Max Kuhn
You might want to check out the Reproducible Research task view: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html There is a section on Microsoft formats, as well as other formats that can be converted. Max On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Wed, 15 S

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas Lumley
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, dadrivr wrote: Thanks for your help, guys. I'm looking to produce a high-quality plot (no jagged lines or other distortions) with a filetype that is accepted by Microsoft Word on a PC and that most journals will accept. That's why I'd prefer to stick with JPEG, TIFF, PNG,

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Sep 15, 2010, at 10:25 AM, dadrivr wrote: > > Thanks for your help, guys. I'm looking to produce a high-quality plot (no > jagged lines or other distortions) with a filetype that is accepted by > Microsoft Word on a PC and that most journals will accept. That's why I'd > prefer to stick with

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:25 AM, dadrivr wrote: > > Thanks for your help, guys.  I'm looking to produce a high-quality plot (no > jagged lines or other distortions) with a filetype that is accepted by > Microsoft Word on a PC and that most journals will accept.  That's why I'd > prefer to stick w

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread dadrivr
Thanks for your help, guys. I'm looking to produce a high-quality plot (no jagged lines or other distortions) with a filetype that is accepted by Microsoft Word on a PC and that most journals will accept. That's why I'd prefer to stick with JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or the like. I'm not sure EPS would f

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Marc Schwartz
That approach will be unique to OSX, upon which PDF is a default format. You can copy and paste from a PDF document using Preview into Office or iWork or similar apps. However, when subsequently displaying that content on a non-OSX system, the content will be shown as a bitmap not as the vector

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, dadrivr 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, t

Re: [R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread Bryan Hanson
There's many ways to solve this, but you are close to one already: Make the pdf, put the cursor where you want it in the document, then on the menu bar Insert --> Picture --> From File... And navigate to the file. This works on the Mac, and seems to store the picture internally in a different way

[R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

2010-09-15 Thread dadrivr
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 (sa