On 3/19/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:43 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > 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. > > Gabor, > > The problem is the the WMF/EMF formats are Windows specific, given the > proprietary nature of the format. > > On non-Windows platforms (ie. Linux) which is what Thomas was referring
I don't think so. The statement being quoted was: Yes, by all means you should use linux instead of windows ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.