There's many ways to solve this, but you are close to one already: Make the pdf, put the cursor where you want it in the document, then on the menu bar Insert --> Picture --> From File... And navigate to the file. This works on the Mac, and seems to store the picture internally in a different way that selecting the graphic in a viewer and cutting and pasting. Quality is top-notch and the graphic is clickable to be resized (and retains it's quality).
HTH. Bryan ************* Bryan Hanson Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA On 9/15/10 10:38 AM, "dadrivr" <dadr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am trying to make some publication-quality plots for use in Microsoft > Word, but I am having trouble creating high-quality plots that are supported > by Microsoft Word. > > If I use the R plot function to create the figure, the lines are jagged, and > the picture is not of high quality (same with JPEG(), TIFF(), and PNG() > functions). I have tried using the Cairo package, but it distorts my dashed > lines, and the win.metafile results in a picture of terrible quality. The > only way I have succeeded in getting a high quality picture in a file is by > using the pdf() function to save the plot as a pdf file, but all my attempts > to convert the image in the pdf file to a TIFF or other file type accepted > by Word result in considerably degraded quality. Do you have any > suggestions for creating publication-quality plots in R that can be placed > in Word documents? What packages, functions (along with options), and/or > conversions would you use? Thanks so much for your help! ______________________________________________ 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.