Why don't you just output all the plot to a single file by opening 'pdf', doing the plots, 'dev.off()'. Why do you need so many files open?
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alex Pine <alex.p...@nyu.edu> wrote: > Hello all, > > My question has to do with writing to pdf/ps files. Currently, my R program > requires 100+ pdf devices to be open, which is over the limit of 64 devices > that can be open at the same time, causing R to throw an exception. My > problem could be solved if I could append to a pdf file after its initial > device has been closed, but so far I haven't been able to figure out a way > to do that. If one calls pdf(file="myfile"), and "myfile" already exists, it > will be overwritten. Is there any way that I can make the pdf() function > append to the existing file instead? And if not, is there any way to call a > program like pdfmerge ( http://microtronyx.com/pdfmerge/ ) from inside R > code? I know I could simply write to a different pdf file every time I would > otherwise do an append and then merge those files once my R program has > completed, but in my case that would lead to the creation of literally > thousands of pdf files before I merged them all together, and I would like > to avoid that if possible. > > Thank you for any help you can give, > > Alex > > [[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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ 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.
