Re: publication quality graphs
On 12 October 2005 at 22:01, Don Armstrong wrote:
| I personally use R here for almost all of the publication quality
| graphs that I need to make here.
|
| My basic workflow looks like the following:
|
| 1) data entry into gnumeric
| 2) export to tab delineated files
| 3) tweak .R file so that it does what I want it to do for this
| particular dataset [I've got a set of these that I use for
| different experiments/graph types that I use often.]
|
| 4) R --no-save < foo.R; to run the R file
| 5) ps2pdf if I need to send it to people who don't have gv
Why 4) and 5) ? R has a native pdf driver -- see help(pdf). And you can
insert pdf charts directly into LaTeX too.
| [I actually have makefiles to do 4&5]
|
| Of course, R is probably a bit more difficult to get started in, but
| the power of the language makes it quite useful to me, despite its
| steep learning curve.
|
| http://rzlab.ucr.edu/debian/debian-science/
|
| should give you sort of an idea of what I'm doing. [Ignore the
| gigantic +/-, that was a less than stellar experiment.]
For an idea about the different things one can do with R graph, see the
contributed graph gallery at
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/index.php
Hth, Dirk
--
Statistics: The (futile) attempt to offer certainty about uncertainty.
-- Roger Koenker, 'Dictionary of Received Ideas of Statistics'
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