jcblum
October 26, 2018, 3:26pm
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There was some discussion of Windows screen graphics before, but I’m not sure if it got anywhere (seems like confusion between on-screen display quality and saved-to-a-file output quality tends to creep in):
For reasons not worth going into, I've recently switched from macOS to Windows. Something that has really stuck out to me thus far is the really poor quality of graphics produced during interactive use in R. This isn't an RStudio-specific problem really as it makes no difference whether one is using R GUI, command line, or RStudio.
The basic difference it appears to me is that macOS/quartz and Linux/X11 use antialiasing for all lines in the graphics and the Windows graphics device does not (just fonts). This makes a pretty significant difference in my view, though, in the quality of certain plots — especially if they contain things like diagonal or curved lines (the output looks jagged). I …
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