[R-SIG-Mac] Office integration

[Simon Urbanek]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Jose A. Garcia wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> I think that the best option for integrating graphics to MS Word is to
> either save the plot as jpg (for medium-quality graphs) or to save  
> them as
> pdf and then convert them to .png with Preview (for high-quality  
> graphs).
>
> For example:
>
> pdf("myplot.pdf",height=3.2,width=3.5,pointsize=9)
> plot(x,y)
> dev.off()
>
> Then open "myplot.pdf" with Preview and Save as PNG.
>

Preview's PNGs are increasingly problematic and of low quality (you  
can't set the dpi these days), so I'd suggest using Quartz to output  
hi-res PNGs e.g.

quartz(file="foo.png", type="png", dpi=300)

If you want to create a hi-res snapshot of your current Quartz plot in  
the GUI, you can use

quartz.save(file="foo.png", type="png", dpi=300)

(You'll need 2.7.0 or later).

Cheers,
Simon