R help - Feb 2010 - export graphics for editing in Illustrator

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

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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Thanks for your help, SVG works perfectly.
The package RSvgDevice does just what I need.
Ivan

Le 2/24/2010 11:30, Liviu Andronic a ?crit :
> On 2/24/10, Ivan Calandra<ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de>  wrote:
>    
>>   Any other ideas?
>>
>>      
> Perhaps SVG? Also check this wiki page [1].
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:graphics-misc:export
>
>