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2008 May 23
2
Preparing high quality figures with tiff as end result
...format, with the warning that eps figures will be
converted to tiff format ( see
http://www.plosone.org/static/figureGuidelines.action ).
Because of this conversion, I figured I'd generate tiff-format figures
from the beginning.
However, a number of issues cropped up:
1) using
library(Cairo)
CairoTIFF("test.tif")
I get " Sorry, this Cairo was compiled without tiff support.". I tried
finding out how to recompile Cairo, but got lost in a lot of confusing
talk about GTK+, downloaded dll files that I didn't know how to use
etc.
so I turned to plain tiff(), and
2) R started...
2007 Jul 18
0
Saving R graphics as various file types.
...to hard-code as much as possible initially. For each possible output
format have a number of possible ways of producing that output and a
test to see if that method is available. Then run the tests and use the
best ones found. For example, it's probably better to make a TIFF file
using CairoTIFF than using jpeg() and a shell call to ImageMagick's
convert routine. But if there's no Cairo, fall back. If there's no
jpeg(), or no ImageMagick, then you're stuck, and jpeg output is no
longer an option.
How would this work in practice? Let's think:
> library(graphi...