R help - Jul 2008 - High resolution graphics from R Windows Vista

Hi 

I appreciate there has been some recent discussion regarding generating
publication quality graphics in R. I am fairly familiar with these issues and
have had no problems generating high quality images from R windows version.
However, I have recently install Vista and what previously worked well under XP
now looks substandard when generated from R (using tiff(), jpeg(), etc) and I
haven't been able to successfully recreate the same quality images. When I
try and specifiy res in the tiff fuction I also get a crash. Has anyone else had
these problems? Any suggestions. (Please don't advise me to "ditch
Vista" or windows too for that matter).

Thanks in advance.

Adam Langley 

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On the TIFF point -- are you using 2.7.1 patched?  It is likely that the 
crash is fixed there (it was intermittent and some of us never see it).

Otherwise you have not described what is 'substandard' nor given any 
examples, and others are not reporting such differences.  (I do have XP 
and Vista 64 on the same machine, and I see no differences in the PNGs 
produced there.)

Are you sure that it is the bitmap file and not the viewer that is 
different?  People so often forget that (almost all PDF problems reported 
here are in fact viewer problems) -- I was using Photoshop CS3 on both 
platforms.

And please don't multiple post:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-July/169503.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-July/169505.html


On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Adam Langley wrote:
> Hi
>
> I appreciate there has been some recent discussion regarding generating 
> publication quality graphics in R. I am fairly familiar with these 
> issues and have had no problems generating high quality images from R 
> windows version. However, I have recently install Vista and what 
> previously worked well under XP now looks substandard when generated 
> from R (using tiff(), jpeg(), etc) and I haven't been able to 
> successfully recreate the same quality images. When I try and specifiy 
> res in the tiff fuction I also get a crash. Has anyone else had these 
> problems? Any suggestions. (Please don't advise me to "ditch
Vista" or
> windows too for that matter).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Adam Langley
>
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>
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