Poor resolution in knitr using Rmd
Solution 1
It's most likely that since this question was asked, the software has improved. I came to this question looking for how to increase the resolution of plots. I found OP's original approach worked out-of-the-box for me.
So, setting dpi=300
(because dpi=150
did not produce a sufficiently obvious difference) in the chunk's parameters, produced a much higher quality image without modifying the physical size of the images within Word.
```{r, echo=FALSE, dpi=300, fig.width=7, fig.height=7}
plot(0,0,type="n",xlim=c(0,500), ylim=c(-12,0), las=1)
color <- rainbow(500)
text(380,-1,"Test",pos=4)
lseq <- seq(-6,-2,length.out=500)
for(j in seq_along(lseq)) {
lines(c(400,450), rep(lseq[j], 2), col=color[j])
}
polygon(c(400,450,450,400), c(-6,-6,-2,-2), lwd=1.2)
```
However, setting out.width
and out.height
removes the production of the image entirely, with the warning "fig.align, out.width, out.height, out.extra are not supported for Word output".
Solution 2
Just keep things simple, set all chucks to dpi of 300 and make them wider.
Run this first thing:
```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(dpi=300,fig.width=7)
```
Solution 3
This is a great time to take advantage of knitr's built-in dynamic customization features for output types. Ths was tested with both output targets...
````{r img-setup, include=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
out.format <- knitr::opts_knit$get("out.format")
img_template <- switch( out.format,
word = list("img-params"=list(fig.width=6,
fig.height=6,
dpi=150)),
{
# default
list("img-params"=list( dpi=150,
fig.width=6,
fig.height=6,
out.width="504px",
out.height="504px"))
} )
knitr::opts_template$set( img_template )
````
If you don't want to use the img_template for every image produced you can either not call the set function and instead add opts.label="img_template"
to the params of the chunks you want to use it with, or override the img_template by specifying the params explicitly for the chunk.
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Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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dbarneche almost 2 years
I have a .Rmd file and I am trying to create a .docx file via the function pandoc.
I want to have a figure with final resolution of 504x504 pixels (i.e., 7x7inch with 72dpi). Unfortunately, the default 72 dpi is too poor in quality, and I would like to increase it to, say, 150 dpi without altering the final resolution (so it will already have the correct size within the .docx file). If I keep options fig.width and fig.height=7 and set dpi=150, I get the quality I want but the final resolution increases and the figure blows outside the .docx margins. I tried playing with the arguments out.width and out.height but when I include those it just doesn't plot anything in the final .docx.
Ideas?
Example .Rmd code:
My title ------------------------- *(this report was produced on: `r as.character(Sys.Date())`)* That's my plot ```{r echo=FALSE} plot(0,0,type="n",xlim=c(0,500), ylim=c(-12,0), las=1) color <- rainbow(500) text(380,-1,"Test",pos=4) lseq <- seq(-6,-2,length.out=500) for(j in seq_along(lseq)) { lines(c(400,450), rep(lseq[j], 2), col=color[j]) } polygon(c(400,450,450,400), c(-6,-6,-2,-2), lwd=1.2) ```
Transforming into .docx
library(knitr) library(markdown) knit("example.Rmd") # produces the md file pandoc("example.md", format = "docx") #prodces the .docx file
If I try to rescale the figure, it just does not work. Below:
My title ------------------------- *(this report was produced on: `r as.character(Sys.Date())`)* That's my plot ```{r echo=FALSE, dpi=150, fig.width=7, fig.height=7, out.width=504, out.height=504} plot(0,0,type="n",xlim=c(0,500), ylim=c(-12,0), las=1) color <- rainbow(500) text(380,-1,"Test",pos=4) lseq <- seq(-6,-2,length.out=500) for(j in seq_along(lseq)) { lines(c(400,450), rep(lseq[j], 2), col=color[j]) } polygon(c(400,450,450,400), c(-6,-6,-2,-2), lwd=1.2) ```
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mnel over 10 yearsperhaps stackoverflow.com/questions/14829791/… will provide inspiration
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csgillespie over 10 yearsWhen I save png files, I use something like:
ppi = 300; png("mygraph.png", width=6*ppi, height=6*ppi, res=ppi)
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Yihui Xie over 10 years@csgillespie that is equivalent to
fig.width=6, fig.height=6, dpi=300
inknitr
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Yihui Xie over 10 years
out.width=504
is probably not enough, since you did not specify the unit, although you probably mean pixelsout.width='504px'
; even with that, I'm not sure if pandoc can do a good job setting the figure size in .docx; I do not have MS Word, so I cannot verify it -
dbarneche over 10 yearsUnfortunately it does not work for .docx. It works just fine for .html though. Thanks!
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Marcin Kosiński over 9 yearsBy the way did you know that you can click "knit doc" in RStudio if you add some lines to .Rmd file ? rmarkdown.rstudio.com/word_document_format.html
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