[R] Letter Spacing

Renaud Lancelot renaud.lancelot at pasteur.mg
Fri Jan 9 16:06:05 CET 2004


Redding, Matthew a écrit :

> Hi All, 
> 
> I've been trying to make some adjustments to the graphics in a paper I wrote some time ago, for which the comments have been 
> returned from the reviewers.
> 
> I always use R for publication graphics...I think it does the best job available, for the things I am interested in.
> 
> I could not get my graphics in R 181 to look the same as the old ones (completed 8 months ago), 
> the text seemed a bit squashed 
> together when I copied graphics as meta-files into word.  
> 
> I have found that by re-installing version 1.51, the graphics look as nice as the previous ones, with the text nicely spaced.
> 
> Is there a "par" parameters that will adjust the letter spacing, so I can use version 181 for this type of job?

I am using Word 2000. I have the best results copying the screen output 
to a file using dev.copy(), e.g.

plot(blabla)
dev.copy(win.metafile, "mygraph.wmf")
dev.off()

(and then insert the graphic file into the Word document).

In particular, it gives me neater lines than with the GUI menus, either 
copying/pasting the graph into Word, or saving it to a file.

Best,

Renaud

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