On 3/19/07, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
On Windows one can produce metafile output directly from R. This is a Windows vector graphics format so it retains resolution under expansion and shrinkage and it also works well with Microsoft Office. This would likely give superior results (maximum resolution, more flexibility in post processing, easier to do, interfaces better with Office) to using and transferring graphics from another OS, particularly png which is only bit-mapped rather than vector-based. ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
