[R] High resolution plots

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Please read carefully what `resolution' means for a png() device (and a 
PNG file).  It is a hint to the viewer in the file header (often ignored), 
as described in the R help file.

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Knut Krueger wrote:

> Is there any possibility to get high resolution plots in a windows xp
> system?
> I tried it with the device function png(filename =
> "c:/r/highresplot%d.png",pointsize=12, res=900)
> but when I try to set: width = 480, height = 480 or   pointsize = 12,
> the text is not scaled in the same way as the plots.

We have no idea what that means.  Those arguments are the defaults, and 
so make no difference to the actual plot.

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