[R] export graphics for editing in Illustrator

[David Winsemius]

I don't think you understood what was being recommended. (I thought)  
Heimstra was suggesting that you _not_ use savePlot and instead use  
the functions that are designed for creating postscript or pdf files,  
pdf() or postscript().

-- 
David.


On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:18 AM, Ivan Calandra wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Thanks for your answer, but I have the same problem whether I use  
> pdf or eps files. PDF are actually worse than EPS.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
> Ivan
>
> Le 2/23/2010 14:00, Paul Hiemstra a écrit :
>> Ivan Calandra wrote:
>>> Dear R users,
>>>
>>> I would like to edit my graphics in Illustrator. I know that I can  
>>> set up almost every graph parameter in R, but the time I will  
>>> spend searching for the correct settings might not be worth since  
>>> I'm quite used to Illustrator and since I will in any case use  
>>> Illustrator to prepare for publication.
>>>
>>> Up to now, I've used savePlot() with type=("eps") but I'm unable  
>>> to dissociate every part of the plot in Illustrator.
>>>
>>> Is there a better way to do it? Another function, another package,  
>>> or a completely different approach? I'm of course open to all  
>>> suggestions.
>>>
>>> For info, I run R2.10 on Windows XP
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Ivan
>>>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I mostly use pdf to store my results from R. In R code it would  
>> look like:
>>
>> pdf("bla.pdf")
>> plot commands...
>> dev.off()
>>
>> I can read these pds into Inkscape (opensource vector drawing  
>> program) and edit all the indvidual lines and such. I can imagine  
>> Illustrator should also be able to read these pdfs.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>
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