On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andrew Perrin wrote: (in part)
>
> 2.) Yes, by all means you should use linux instead of windows. The
> graphics output is completely compatible with whatever applications you
> want to paste them into on Windows.

This turns out not to be the case.

It is not trivial to produce good graphics off Windows for adding to 
Microsoft Office documents (regrettably an important case for many 
people).  There has been much discussion of this on the R-sig-mac mailing 
list, for example, where PNG bitmaps (at sufficiently high resolution) 
seem to be the preferred method.

        -thomas

Thomas Lumley                   Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       University of Washington, Seattle

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