[R] Hardware for a new Workstation for best performance using R

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 19-Mar-2007 at 07:23PM +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

|> Thomas Lumley wrote:
|> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andrew Perrin wrote: (in part)
|> >   
|> >> 2.) Yes, by all means you should use linux instead of windows. The
|> >> graphics output is completely compatible with whatever applications you
|> >> want to paste them into on Windows.
|> >>     
|> >
|> > This turns out not to be the case.
|> >
|> > It is not trivial to produce good graphics off Windows for adding to 
|> > Microsoft Office documents (regrettably an important case for many 
|> > people).  There has been much discussion of this on the R-sig-mac mailing 
|> > list, for example, where PNG bitmaps (at sufficiently high resolution) 
|> > seem to be the preferred method.
|> >
|> >  	-thomas
|> >
|> >   
|> One option for people who are paying for software anyways is to install 
|> Adobe Acrobat Writer software for generating PDF files from Word. This 
|> also allows you to include ouput from the pdf() device, and the end 
|> result comes out really nice.

I've been told that there are also free PDF writers, so it's not
necessary to spend money on Adobe Acrobat Writer.  One example is
http://www.cutepdf.com/

I personally find that PNGs are fine provided I know what final size
is needed.  PNGs certainly don't have the flexibility that Gabor
mentions but they are usually as small as any other format.

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