Hi Greg, When you are running R from a script, you want to divert the output somewhere. Depending exactly how you run it, R may nicely push the text output to a file, but you should specify where you want the graphics to go yourself. For example:
## use the PDF graphics device pdf(file = "boxplot1.pdf", height = 10, width = 10) ## the plot boxplot(APCP ~ HOUR, data=CAPE.df ) ## important otherwise the device is not shutdown and the file saved dev.off() There are many other devices. Here are some documentation references: ?Devices ?dev.off Another useful tidbit for this type of work if you ever move outside of base graphics is: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-do-lattice_002ftrellis-graphics-not-work_003f HTH, Josh On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Fishel, Greg <gfis...@wral.com> wrote: > I will confess to being very wet behind the ears when it comes to scripting, > so with that as a backdrop, here is my question. I can create a box and > whisker plot without any problem from the command line, but incorporating > that process into a bash script has proved problematic. Below is the portion > of the bash script that fails: > > R --save --no-save --vanilla << EOF > > > CAPE.df = read.table ("sref.sfccape.rdu.txt", header=TRUE, sep=" ") > > boxplot ( APCP ~ HOUR, data=CAPE.df ) > > EOF > > I have done a lot of searching, but apparently not in the correct places. > Anyone's help will be appreciated greatly! > > > Greg Fishel > Chief Meteorologist > WRAL-TV > P.O. Box 12000 > 2619 Western Boulevard > Raleigh, NC 27606 > 919-821-8992 > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
