[R] Creating publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft Word

[Bryan Hanson]

There's many ways to solve this, but you are close to one already:  Make the
pdf, put the cursor where you want it in the document, then on the menu bar
Insert --> Picture --> From File... And navigate to the file.  This works on
the Mac, and seems to store the picture internally in a different way that
selecting the graphic in a viewer and cutting and pasting.  Quality is
top-notch and the graphic is clickable to be resized (and retains it's
quality).

HTH.  Bryan
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Bryan Hanson
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA



On 9/15/10 10:38 AM, "dadrivr" <dadrivr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am trying to make some publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft
> Word, but I am having trouble creating high-quality plots that are supported
> by Microsoft Word.
> 
> If I use the R plot function to create the figure, the lines are jagged, and
> the picture is not of high quality (same with JPEG(), TIFF(), and PNG()
> functions).  I have tried using the Cairo package, but it distorts my dashed
> lines, and the win.metafile results in a picture of terrible quality.  The
> only way I have succeeded in getting a high quality picture in a file is by
> using the pdf() function to save the plot as a pdf file, but all my attempts
> to convert the image in the pdf file to a TIFF or other file type accepted
> by Word result in considerably degraded quality.  Do you have any
> suggestions for creating publication-quality plots in R that can be placed
> in Word documents?  What packages, functions (along with options), and/or
> conversions would you use?  Thanks so much for your help!