Another nice thing about your solution is that circles look like circles,
and not like diamonds (when viewed on screen).
Thanks.
Kevin Wright
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Steve Taylor <steve.tay...@aut.ac.nz>wrote:
> Unfortunately the win.metafile() device does not support semi-transparent
> colours, which I like using.
>
> In my experience, the best way to get R graphics into Word is to use
> compressed high-resolution tiff, like this:
>
> word.tif = function(filename="Word_Figure_%03d.tif", zoom=4, width=17,
> height=10, pointsize=10, ...) {
> if (!grepl("[.]ti[f]+$", filename, ignore.case=TRUE))
> filename = paste0(filename,".tif")
> tiff(filename=filename, compression="lzw", res=96*zoom,
> width=width, height=height, units='cm', pointsize=pointsize, ...)
> }
> word.tif('test')
> plot(rnorm(100))
> dev.off()
>
> Now drag the file test.tif into your Word document.
>
> Sure, it's a bitmap format rather than a vector format, but the quality is
> excellent and the file sizes are still quite small. None of the vector
> formats works as well as this.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
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