Wednesday 18 April 2012

Fun Editing R Graphs in Inkscape - Data and Analysis with R, every day at work

http://r-every-day-at-work.posterous.com/fun-editing-r-graphs-in-inkscape?goback=%2Egde_77616_member_107456593
Last week, I read a chapter out of Visualize This by Nathan Yau.  I was, of course, delighted to see that he was championing the use of R.  One really cool thing that I learned from his book, and was very surprised about, was that you can export an R graph in PDF form and then easily edit individual elements of the graph in Adobe Illustrator. 

what? and spend oodles of $ with Illustrator just to make R graph look more spiffy in a publication? (read undisguised plug for open source) try Inkscape!

disclaimer: there's all sorts of good reasons to use Illustrator especially if you do design work, opensource projects make an easier entry into vector graphics editing for a cheap budget.


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