And possibly better, argument 'res', e.g. png("R.graph.png", width=1200, height = 700, res=144) plot(...) dev.off()
Default corresponds to res=72. /Henrik On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: > 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.