qplot and anti-aliasing in R

Question

I am using ggplot2 library and am working with the qplot command I know I can save my output as an anti-aliased image file by using the following command after my qplot

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, R's built-in Windows graphics device does not do anti-aliasing. But nowadays it's easy to install the Cairo graphics device which does.

At the R console:

install.packages('Cairo',,'http://www.rforge.net/')

To test:

plot(rnorm(1000)) # non-antialiased (on Windows)
library('Cairo')
CairoWin()
plot(rnorm(1000)) # antialiased!

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