[R] Charts to M$Word - what's the best format

[David Brahm]

Ernesto Jardim <ernesto at ipimar.pt> wrote:
> I'm exporting some graphs from R to M$Word. I used png, jpeg and bmp and
> the quality is poor when comparing with the postscript.

Patrick Connolly <p.connolly at hortresearch.co.nz> replied:
> I'm a little surprised that the bitmap function hasn't come up in this
> discussion.  Its default res argument is too small... conversion of grey
> lines are somewhat unsatisfactory...

My magic line for exporting graphs from R on Solaris to PowerPoint on WinNT is:
   bitmap("myfile.png", type="png16m", height=8.5, width=11, res=300)

(The type="png16m" argument may help with the grey line problem.)  Good luck.
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                              -- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)