See ?png and argument 'pointsize'. You can increase that as you increase the dimensions of the output image.
/Henrik On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM, david hamer <j.david.ha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > My x-y scatterplot produces a very ragged best-fit line when imported into > Word. > > > > * >plot (data.file$x, data.file$y, type = "p", las=1, pch=20, ylab = > expression("Cover of Species y" ~ (m^{2}~ha^{-1} )), xlab = > expression("Cover of Species x" ~ (m^{2}~ha^{-1})) ) >lines ( > data.file$x, fitted ( model.x ) )* > > A suggestion from the internet is to use .png at high (1200) resolution. > * >dev.print ( device = png, file = "R.graph.png", width = 1200, > height = 700)* > This gives a high–quality graph, but the titles and tick–mark labels become > very tiny when exported into Word. > > I therefore increased the size of the titles and tick–mark labels with cex. > * >plot (......cex =1.8, cex.lab = 1.8, cex.axis = 1.25,....)* > But this causes the x–axis title to lie on top of the tick–mark labels. > (This problem does not occur with the y–axis, where the title lies well > away from the y–axis tick–mark labels.) > Changing margins * >par ( mai = c ( 1.3, 1.35, 1, .75 ) )* does not > seem to have any effect on this. > > A suggestion from the internet is to delete the titles from plot, and use > mtext with line=4 to drop the title lower on the graph. > > * >plot (....... ylab = " ", xlab = " ".....) >mtext(side = 1, "Cover > of Species x (superscripts??)", line = 4)* > This works, but with mtext I have now lost the ability to have the > superscripts in the axis title. > > And I am back full circle, having to lower the resolution of the graph to > keep the x–axis title away from the axis, and thus reverting to a ragged, > segmented “line” when exported to Word...... > > Final note: The R graphics window version of the graph becomes very > distorted, even though the graph may be of high quality (other than the > problem of the x-axis title overlaying the x-axis tick-mark labels) once in > Word. I guess this is because of using “tricks” to try to get a desired > end-product in Word.... > > Thanks for any suggestions, > David. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.