[R] which one give clear picture-pdf, jpg or tiff?

[Tim Gruene]

Dear  ,

PDF format has the advantage that it is resolution independent (unless it
contains an embedded bitmap, but I guess for a graph from R it won't), so that's
one great advantage of pdf.

However, as far as I know, MS product are a little ignorant of PostScript and
PDF, and if that's the case for your system, jpeg is probably better.

tiff is not really an image format, it's a container (like avi for videos), so
it's up to the program to put inside whatever it wants. There used to be a
patent problem with lzw compression often used in tiff-files so that they were
unnecessarily large.

Tim

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:02:18AM -0700, r.ookie wrote:
> >From my experience, *.pdf is the best of the three file formats.
> 
> On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Roslina Zakaria wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need some opinion.  I would like to use graph that I generate from R code and 
> save it into word document.  Which format is better? pdf, jpeg or tiff?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
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