After the plot is created, you can save the graph as a pdf document (file menu, save as). You can then send the pdf file to your colleagues. John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)>>> jeroen00ms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu> 7/11/2011 12:08 PM >>> I am looking for a way to save a plot (graphics contents) to a file after the plot has been calculated but before it has been rendered. More specifically, assume that I made a plot that took a very long time to produce, I would like to save this plot to a generic file that I can later, on a different machine, render to either PDF, PNG, SVG using the usual R graphics devices, without recalculating the graphical contents. As a toy example, suppose this is my plot function: testplot <- function(){ Sys.sleep(10); #very long and complicated procedure plot(cars); } So the use case is that after running testplot() which took potentially 30 days to calculate, I would like to send a file to my colleagues that they can load in R and send to their png or pdf or svg devices just as if they would have made the plot themselves, without having to re-run the code. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Save-generic-plot-to-file-before-rendering-to-device-tp3659999p3659999.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for th...{{dropped:6}} ______________________________________________ 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.