Riinu Pius @pius.cloud · Jul 6
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New blog post: high quality figures from R Markdown or Quarto to Word: R Markdown set-up chunk: dpi = 300 Quarto YAML: fig-dpi: 300 www.riinu.me/2025/07/dpi/ #rstats #quarto

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Riinu Pius · Jul 6

The default DPI of figures created by R Markdown or Quarto for HTML and Word outputs is 96 (dots per inch - resolution). This may be sufficient for web purposes (HTML), but not sufficient for publishing manuscripts (Word). PDFs include vector graphics and are therefore infinite resolution.