On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Cedric Laczny <cedric.lac...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Rosalina, > > I created simple barplots with R and saved them as jpeg oder png. I wanted to > use them in a LaTex-beamer presentation. The results were simply awful. They > looked like if I had copied them out of some other document, thus "losing" > most of the resolution. > However, saving the plot as pdf and using this in the beamer-presentation > worked like a charm and the resolution was super-sharp. This is probably the > point that Tim Gruene highlighted directly at the beginning in his answer. > Which format would be the best to integrate into Word? Unfortunately, I have > no experience on that one. > My suggestion would be to create a sample graph in either of the formats and > see what they look like compared to each other. I mean, it's your document and > it should be pleasant to you at first ;) > If you should want to modify the plots later via some graphics-program (GIMP, > Photoshop, you name it...), clearly pdfs are not widely, if they are at all, > directly supported, so you must convert it to a different format like jpeg or > png then...
This is a bit of a lengthy process, but when I need/want very high quality jpeg, png, bitmap, or whatever graphics, I usually save them from R as a PDF or postscript file, rasterize them in GIMP (free answer to Photoshop) at the desired resolution, and finally choose the desired format/compression (jpeg, png, bitmap, tiff, etc.) to save it as from there. I like this method because I have more control of things like resolution, and compression from GIMP than I do from R, and nice preview features and file size estimation make it easy to balance that trade off. That said, whenever possible I leave them as PDFs. > > Best, > > Cedric > > On Friday, 20. August 2010 05:32:46 Roslina Zakaria wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some opinion. I would like to use graph that I generate from R code >> and save it into word document. Which format is better? pdf, jpeg or >> tiff? >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.