Timeline for What is the easiest way to create publication-quality plots under Linux?
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| May 22, 2022 at 13:45 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by whuber♦ | ||
| Jul 20, 2010 at 11:07 | comment | added | Rob Hyndman | I like to see vector graphics (no jpegs), graphical design following the principles of Tufte & Cleveland, readable fonts, uncluttered legends, no shaded backgrounds, sensible axis limits and tick intervals, labelled axes, no overlap of text and plotting characters or lines, etc. Most authors use the default settings of their software, so good software has good defaults. This is where Excel fails miserably and R does pretty well. But it is possible to produce lousy graphs in R and good graphs in Excel. It's just easier to produce high quality graphics in R. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 10:53 | comment | added | Egon Willighagen | .. see my comment on the question... how do you define 'publication-quality', or 'best quality'... from a editor perspective? | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 10:02 | comment | added | Rob Hyndman | R produces some of the best quality graphics around. As an editor of an international research journal, I would love all our authors to use R. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 9:45 | history | answered | Rob Hyndman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |