Hi, For most purposes, I find that R graphics get 95% of the work done towards final publication. A couple of personal comments,
- lattice, ggplot2, RColorBrewer, evidently. ggplot2, in particular, makes really good aesthetic decisions by default. - whilst R devices are really good, I find there is not yet a perfect device that combines all the features I need; thus, I may choose between pdf, eps (when the editor is old-school), tikzDevice (when the graph contains labels or mathematical expressions not well rendered by the R graphics engine). I used to use png for large colour-scale image()s, but I find recently that the rasterImage / grid.raster functions offer a better alternative on devices that support it (typically pdf, but not yet tikzDevice). - I find there is a fine trade-off between having a fully-reproducible graph from a script (a good thing), and the legibility of that script if it has to include all the tedious fiddling with that may be required for final publication. I produced lattice graphs in the past that required more than ten lines of code, and found the code really difficult to follow or reuse later if, say, the coordinates range of the data had changed. If the script grows too large because I need to tweak the coordinates of many annotations manually by trial-and-error, I usually strip down the graph to its minimal content and add the annotations manually in Illustrator. The data and its mapping to the axes are always fully reproducible (that's the important part), but aesthetic decisions are often easier to control in a what-you-click-is-what-you-do program. My 2 cents, baptiste On 30 March 2011 05:31, blanco <benja...@ru.is> wrote: > Hi, > I have been working with R for the past couple of years; analyzing data and > producing some graphics. > > I was just wondering if people use graphics from R straight into articles or > are they always edited in some way; fonts, headers, axis, color etc? Using > photoshop or some other programs? > > I would like to think it is possible, better and more profession to do it > all in R. > I tried google and the search option but found nothing on the topic. > > What are the experiences for all the professionals out there that use R? > Are there any articles on this specific subject? > > thanks, > blanco > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Using-graphics-straight-from-R-into-published-articles-tp3415401p3415401.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. > ______________________________________________ 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.