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

[Stuart Luppescu]

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 01:30 -0700, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> I usually save them
> from R as a PDF or postscript file, rasterize them in GIMP (free
> answer to Photoshop) at the desired resolution, and finally choose the
> desired format/compression (jpeg, png, bitmap, tiff, etc.) to save it
> as from there.  

Woah. That's really involved. I use this little shell function to
convert from ps to png:

function ps2png {
  ps_file="$1"
  png_file=`echo "$ps_file" | sed -e 's/\.ps$/.png/'`
  gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile="$png_file" -r200x200 "$ps_file"
}

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