Hi guys, I really appreciated all your responds, I made mistake on my example below hwere I wrote device.off() where it should be dev.off(). I read all the help documnet for odf png and postscript before I posted my question but it didn't help. Can some one please code an example? Thanks
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 02:39:13 -0800 From: ml-node+s789695n4648380...@n4.nabble.com To: frespi...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Saving R Graph to a file On 11/4/2012 4:32 AM, Robert Baer wrote: > Some hints: > For pdf(), height and width are in inches, not pixels. dev.off() is > necessary after drawing the image for pdf(). The name for the file > argument (file="c:/figure.xxx") is file not filename > > hist(CO2[,5]) is more interesting > > And yes, > ?pdf > ?postscript ?png > > On 11/3/2012 11:16 PM, frespider wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am not sure why I can't get my plot saved to a file as .ps, I searched >> online and I found that I have to use something is called >> postscript,png or >> pdf function which I did but still not working. >> >> Actually what I have is a matrix with almost 300-400 columns. I need to >> create a histogram and boxplot for some columns as .ps file (with >> reasonable >> size if i can adjust that would be nice also) so I can import them in my >> latex code to display a good chart on my report. And I found out R >> display >> a certain limit of device. >> Can you please help me code this? >> >> This an example I create >> data(CO2) >> png(filename="C:/R/figure.png", height=295, width=300, bg="white") >> hist(CO2[,4]) >> device.off() >> pdf(filename="C:/R/figure.pdf", height=295, width=300, bg="white") >> hist(CO2[,4]) >> postscript(filename="C:/R/figure.pdf", height=295, width=300, >> bg="white") >> hist(CO2[,4]) >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Saving-R-Graph-to-a-file-tp4648369.html >> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [hidden email] 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. > > -- __________________ Robert W Baer, Ph.D. Professor of Physiology Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine A. T. Still University of Health Sciences Kirksville, MO 63501 US ______________________________________________ [hidden email] 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. If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below:http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Saving-R-Graph-to-a-file-tp4648369p4648380.html To unsubscribe from Saving R Graph to a file, click here. NAML -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Saving-R-Graph-to-a-file-tp4648369p4648393.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. [[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.
