[R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

[Philipp Pagel]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:48:55AM +0000, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
> Large snip.
>  
> > Absolutely vector - no jpeg, png, ... although it takes 
> 
> That depends on the kind of graph. I aggree that you should try
> vector at first. But when it generates very larges files (e.g.
> scatterplots with thousands of points) then you better switch to
> bitmaps like tiff or png. Jpeg can create artefacts, so is not very
> good for graphics.

True. Sometimes one can get away with switching from a normal
scatterplot to hexbin or something like this but if that is not
anoption a high resolution tiff or png is the way out.

And of course, I agree that jpeg should never be used for graphs.

cu
	Philipp

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Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan
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