On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 22:38, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 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'.
As I mentioned last month (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-July/074591.html) I've been able to run R under Wine and use it to produce windows metafiles. -- Cheers, RJ Cunningham ______________________________________________ [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
