[R] Export in pdf, png, jpg, eps, etc...

Mark Wardle mark at wardle.org
Tue Nov 27 22:00:19 CET 2007


I don't have any problems with this:

I generate PDFs directly. All other formats I post-process using
command line tools to automatically batch convert (using ImageMagick).

Best wishes,

Mark

On 27/11/2007, Sébastien <pomchip at free.fr> wrote:
> Dear R-users,
>
> I have created a bunch of R scripts that automatically create multiple
> plots, all saved in a pdf device. I initially chose pdf output in order
> to easily access to multiple plots in a single file.
> Now, I am trying to play with different devices, like png or eps and I
> realize that the settings I used to have nice plots in a pdf device are
> giving awful outputs with the other devices... Playing with the
> resolution, for instance, impacts directly on the width of lines and
> sympbols, making them almost invisible at high resolution.
> Optimizing all these settings for every devices might be very tidious
> for me, given the number and the length of my scripts. Is there any easy
> way to keep the aspect of my plots the same way using different devices ?
>
> Thanks you in advance for your feedback.
>
> Sebastien
>
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Dr. Mark Wardle
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