You can get publication quality plots from R with a bit of wrestling. I've had good luck with it for quite complicated plots. First do 'help(par)' and read carefully. The 'xlim' and 'ylim' parameters usually work fine -- I've not seen values outside the given range. Can you post your plot command? Also check out the 'lattice' package. There are some R - graphics guides on the web that may help.
THK On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 22:13 +0100, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping some of you guys might be able to offer me a little advice. I > recently got a paper published and used Grace to produce all the graphs. > Whilst the graphs looked pretty nice I would like something I could automate > and script a little more. > > R looks like a nice fit, and it seems to have some nice analytical tools > available. I am able to produce some reasonable looking graphs but I didn't > know if anyone knew of a nice tutorial on producing publication quality > graphs. Stuff I need is setting x and y min/max values - when I try using > xlim=c(0,10000) I still get values below 0 for example! > > Also can it display numbers in the form 0.1x10^7 on graph axes? How do I stop > numbers going off the side of the viewable area when they are too long? Is it > not the best tool to be using for producing graphs for publication? > > I would appreciate any pointers, links etc. I would also consider alternate > tools. I still haven't found that great plotting tool that seems to do all I > need in Linux just yet... May be there is an R package I would be much better > off using. > > Thanks, > > Marcus -- [email protected] mailing list
