Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/11 19:52, Philipp Pagel wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:31:18AM -0700, blanco wrote: I was just wondering if people use graphics from R straight into articles or are they always edited in some way; fonts, headers, axis, color etc?

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread ONKELINX, Thierry
Large snip. Absolutely vector - no jpeg, png, ... although it takes sometimes some convincing of co-authors... That depends on the kind of graph. I aggree that you should try vector at first. But when it generates very larges files (e.g. scatterplots with thousands of points) then you

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:48:55AM +, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote: Large snip. Absolutely vector - no jpeg, png, ... although it takes That depends on the kind of graph. I aggree that you should try vector at first. But when it generates very larges files (e.g. scatterplots with

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Philipp Pagel wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:48:55AM +, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote: Large snip. Absolutely vector - no jpeg, png, ... although it takes That depends on the kind of graph. I aggree that you should try vector at first. But when it generates very

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/11 11:12, Philipp Pagel wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:48:55AM +, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote: Large snip. Absolutely vector - no jpeg, png, ... although it takes That depends on the kind of graph. I aggree that you should try

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread blanco
Wow - thanks all for your helpful replies. Awesome forum. Am I right to assume that you use the postscript function to create .ps and .pdf files from R? blanco -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:56:09AM -0700, blanco wrote: Wow - thanks all for your helpful replies. Awesome forum. Am I right to assume that you use the postscript function to create .ps and .pdf files from R? almost: postscript(..., onefile=FALSE) # for eps pdf() # for PDF And don't

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:56 AM, blanco wrote: Wow - thanks all for your helpful replies. Awesome forum. Am I right to assume that you use the postscript function to create .ps and .pdf files from R? No, just .ps and .eps files. The pdf() functon is for the obvious purposes. ?Devices

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-30 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, For most purposes, I find that R graphics get 95% of the work done towards final publication. A couple of personal comments, - lattice, ggplot2, RColorBrewer, evidently. ggplot2, in particular, makes really good aesthetic decisions by default. - whilst R devices are really good, I find

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan P Daily
I think you should google search Sweave, as well as check out the ?Sweave page. Not to mention the graphics devices that embed quite nicely into documents, like ?postscript. HTH, Jon -- Jonathan P. Daily Technician - USGS Leetown Science Center 11649 Leetown

Re: [R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

2011-03-29 Thread Philipp Pagel
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:31:18AM -0700, blanco wrote: I was just wondering if people use graphics from R straight into articles or are they always edited in some way; fonts, headers, axis, color etc? Using photoshop or some other programs? I would like to think it is possible, better and