On 3/19/07, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, 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. > > Yes, indeed. However, this fact is of limited help when working on another > operating system, which was the focus of the original question.
What was being discussed included: "Yes, by all means you should use linux instead of windows." and the subsequent discussion seemed to support that including the suggestion that producing graphics on linux is just as good as producing it on windows even if its intended to be transferred to Microsoft Office on Windows but in fact there are a number of advantages to doing it on Windows if you intend to use Microsoft Office there. ______________________________________________ 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.
