Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-15 Thread cls59
baptiste auguie-2 wrote: > > > Just a thought: > > There was recently a discussion here on the pgfSweave [1] driver --- > it should be possible to use it in conjunction with XeTeX [2] to > process the pgf output. Presumably there will be issues of alignment > and spacing but at least ar

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-15 Thread baptiste auguie
On 15 May 2009, at 10:01, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Dieter Menne wrote: Stats Wolf gmail.com> writes: Postscript, however, does not have to be what I need for two reasons. First, it does not accept some special characters from foreign languages (exactly like PDF). '

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Dieter Menne wrote: Stats Wolf gmail.com> writes: Postscript, however, does not have to be what I need for two reasons. First, it does not accept some special characters from foreign languages (exactly like PDF). 'foreign' is a relative term which is imprecise (and some

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-14 Thread Dieter Menne
Stats Wolf gmail.com> writes: > Postscript, however, does not have to be what I need for two reasons. > First, it does not accept some special characters from foreign > languages (exactly like PDF). You should given an example for that in pdf. I always had the impression that pdf is the most co

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-14 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Stats Wolf wrote: Dear colleagues, Saving a plot with pdf gives a very nice result: pdf("myplot.pdf") par(font=1,family='serif') plot(pressure) dev.off() Doing the very same with other formats (png, jpeg, tiff) gives far worse results. Is there anything to do to make a plot in some other forma

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-14 Thread Stats Wolf
Thank you, Paul. Postscript, however, does not have to be what I need for two reasons. First, it does not accept some special characters from foreign languages (exactly like PDF). Second, not too many journals accept it. So from your -- and Daniel's -- reply I understand other formats will not wo

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-14 Thread Dieter Menne
Stats Wolf gmail.com> writes: > > Saving a plot with pdf gives a very nice result: > > pdf("myplot.pdf") > par(font=1,family='serif') > plot(pressure) > dev.off() > > Doing the very same with other formats (png, jpeg, tiff) gives far > worse results. Is there anything to do to make a plot in s

Re: [R] Graphical output format

2009-05-13 Thread Daniel Malter
on: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] Im Auftrag von Stats Wolf Gesendet: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:47 AM An: r-help@r-project.org Betreff: [R] Graphical output format Dear colleagues, Saving a plot with pdf gives a very nice result: pdf("myplot.pdf") par(font=1

[R] Graphical output format

2009-05-13 Thread Stats Wolf
Dear colleagues, Saving a plot with pdf gives a very nice result: pdf("myplot.pdf") par(font=1,family='serif') plot(pressure) dev.off() Doing the very same with other formats (png, jpeg, tiff) gives far worse results. Is there anything to do to make a plot in some other format than pdf look like