Along the lines you mention, check out: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/32297.html
On 3/19/07, Dalphin, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Thomas Lumley 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. > > > > -thomas > > One solution which has not been covered here is to use both operating > systems. For example, I need to present in Powerpoint, yet my work is > done under Linux where I have substantially more RAM and CPU > power. Typically, I'll run my analysis under Linux and then take > advantage of the binary compatibility of the .RData file and move my > final values from Linux to Windows via Samba; I may delete large > intermediate results before the transfer to compendate for my lack of > RAM under Windows. Some small scripts which may have been developed > under Linux are used to create the plots which are placed in my > Powerpoint presentations. By an large, the plots developed under Linux > drop right into the Windows presentations, although there are > occasional font size difficulties that require adjustments. > > Mark Dalphin > > ---------------------- > Mark Dalphin > Dept Comp Biol, M/S AW2/D3262 > Amgen, Inc. > 1201 Amgen Court W > Seattle, WA 98119 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.