[R] exporting high quality graphics from R in Mac OSX

[Ulises Mora Alvarez]

Hi!

There is one more option that you may try:

dev.copy2eps(file="file_name.eps")

Good look.

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Rob Knell wrote:

> Nope, sorry, I made a mistake - it's Office vX, native for OSX. I've 
> had a look around and found quite a few complaints on the 'net about 
> Word X claiming to be OSX native but rendering the image as a scruffy 
> bitmap, so I guess this is a Word problem. I don't want to invest in 
> the newest version of MS Office, which might do it properly... maybe 
> I'll hang on for the Aqua version of Open Office, so I can expunge MS 
> from my hard drive.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> On 22 Jul 2004, at 13:55, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
> > R's PDF is indeed vector graphics.  Given that PDF is supposedly the
> > native graphics representation on MacOS X, it sounds as if you are not
> > using MacOS X native applications (and Office 2000 cannot be, given its
> > date).  If you are indeed using classic MacOS applications then the 
> > native
> > graphics format is different and PDF is foreign.  Might this be as 
> > simple
> > as using up-to-date MacOS X versions of your other applications?
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Rob Knell wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there
> >>
> >> The default option for saving graphics from R (1.9.1) on my Mac is as 
> >> a
> >> pdf file. If I open the file in Acrobat reader it looks really good 
> >> and
> >> crisp, and is obviously saved as vector graphics, since I can zoom in
> >> as much as I like and it continues to look really nice. If I import it
> >> into MS Word (from office 2000), or Textedit, however, it imports it 
> >> as
> >> a bitmap and unless I save it as a pretty big image and then shrink it
> >> in size by about three times after import it looks blurry and
> >> pixellated. The save it as a really big picture and shrink it option 
> >> is
> >> bearable, but hardly elegant.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to persuade some other people in my department that we
> >> should move to using R as a standard analysis package, and this is
> >> currently one strike against it - it's difficult to export
> >> decent-looking high-res graphics.
> >
> > Not true: the export _is_ high quality and your subject line is blaming
> > the wrong tool.
> >
> >> If I want to persuade people to use
> >> R, I need to be able to give them an easy way to do this. There are
> >> some solutions like importing the text and then the graphics into
> >> acrobat, or installing ghostscript and trying it with the graphics as
> >> postscript, but obviously people will respond to this with 'why should
> >> I waste time and or money doing this when I can just cut and paste out
> >> of Excel/Statistica/Minitab'. I realise that this is arguably more of 
> >> a
> >> problem with Word or Textedit, but does anyone know of a good easy
> >> solution to this that I can use as part of my program to evangelise my
> >> colleagues?
> >
> > -- 
> > Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> > Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> > University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> > 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
> > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> >
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Ulises M. Alvarez
LAB. DE ONDAS DE CHOQUE
FISICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGIA AVANZADA
UNAM
umalvarez at fata.unam.mx