On 8/5/05, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/5/05, Knut Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Gabor Grothendieck schrieb: > > > > >On 7/13/05, Luis Tercero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Dear R-help community, > > >> > > >>would any of you have a (preferably simple) example of a > > >>presentation-quality .png plot, i.e. one that looks like the .eps plots > > >>generated by R? I am working with R 2.0.1 in WindowsXP and am having > > >>similar problems as Knut Krueger in printing high-quality plots. I have > > >>looked at the help file and examples therein as well as others I have > > >>been able to find online but to no avail. After many many tries I have > > >>to concede I cannot figure it out. > > >> > > >>I would be very grateful for your help. > > >> > > >> > > > > > > If you want the highest resolution use a vector format, > > >not a bitmapped format such as png. See: > > > > > >http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/04/02/1168.html > > > > > The link is now broken, and I did not copy the hints. > > Does anybody knows if it its available at any other location? > > > > And I tried to find > > > > >Thanks for the pointer! .wmf is far superior, I was just in the dark > > >about the format and R's ability to produce it (An Introduction to R > > >"Device drivers" does not mention it and I had obviously missed the > > >deciding last two words in "?device" 'windows') > > > > > the wmf command but there is nothing to find with help.search("wmf") > > > It seems that the links have changed so that the part of the > url that reads: > > http:maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking > > needs to be replaced with: > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au > > That is, the link has changed from: > > http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/04/02/1168.html > to: > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/02/1168.html > > Alternately google for the message id, which is: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
There is a useful summary of differences between bitmapped and vector graphics at: http://www.stc-saz.org/resources/0203_graphics.pdf ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html