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Great, I was introduced to ggplot2 via your note in the footer in articles you've shared in the past. This helps a great deal. Thanks Max! :)

ps: Is there a way to generate vector outputs?

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ggsave (and most R graphics devices) supports .pdf and .svg output. I remember reading an article about prerendering plots in ggplot2 then exporting into Illustrator for more professional touch ups.

Note that if you want to include custom fonts with those outputs, it gets really complicated.

Here's a couple articles on touch-ups that I've hoarded. (Thanks, Pinboard!)

http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/making-infographics-using-r...

http://rforwork.info/2012/04/12/fun-editing-r-graphs-in-inks...

Decent references. I find myself doing similar, final-draft touch-ups with plots for manuscripts.

I haven't played around with Inkscape, but I'll definitely be taking a look now!

Now that's clever!!!

I've had good success with .svg from ggplot2. The only issue I've seen is that the legend for continuous color maps is glitchy. Especially if you try to touch up the plot in Inkscape.

R has a built-in Cairo-based SVG output device that allows you to write out any plot in a vector format: http://www.inside-r.org/r-doc/grDevices/cairo. It's great for publication-quality plotting.

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