Finny Kuruvilla <kuruvilla@post.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> I've been a R-user for quite some time.  The graphic on the home page
> looks a bit in need of polish so I applied some antialiased
> transformations that Peter Dalgaard has previously posted to R-help
> for improving graphic quality.  I had to change the margins a bit, but
> here is what it looks like:
> 
> http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rhome.jpg
> 
> Personally, I think it looks much better.  Because people so often
> "judge a book by its cover" (subconsciously or consciously), I'm
> wondering if anyone thinks this is worthy of replacing the current
> version?  I want R to maximize R's appeal and albeit a small
> improvement, hopefully this change will help a bit!

If you run Eric Lecoutre's code to produce the graphic, available at http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R, unchanged except for the addition of these lines:

library(Cairo)
Cairo(600,400,file="Rlogo_swiss.png",type="png",bg="white")

then you get this:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/tchur/Rlogo_swiss.png

which I think looks even better. Kudos to Simon Urbanek and Jeffrey Horner for the excellent Cairo device driver for R (and which works even without an X server, which makes it great for web server applications).

Tim C

