On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Knut Krueger 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")
Searching for acronyms is not usually a good idea. Searching for `metafile' should work (on Windows). Note that R can produce Windows metafiles only on Windows, which is why it is not in `An Introduction to R'. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
