[R] Using graphics straight from R into published articles

Rainer M Krug r.m.krug at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 11:24:09 CEST 2011


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On 30/03/11 11:12, Philipp Pagel wrote:
> 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.

Well - is there a rule without an exception?

Of course - you are right.

Cheers,

Rainer

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


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