[R] Resolution of plots

Patrick Connolly p.connolly at hortresearch.co.nz
Thu Jun 17 22:57:43 CEST 2004


On Thu, 17-Jun-2004 at 08:00AM -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote:

|> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
|> 
|> > You will have to tell us more.  Exporting how: to what format using what
|> > device and what exact command on what operating system?
|> >
|> > The only device I know of that even knows about dpi is bitmap() and that
|> > has no such limit unless imposed by your implementation of ghostscript.
|> 
|> There is an issue with PNG. libpng provides png_set_pHYs to set resolution
|> (in pixels/metre) but provides a default if it is not set.  We don't set
|> it, and so get the default resolution.


I don't follow.  Is that in relation to the function bitmap()0 or to
png()?



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