Thanks for pointing that out, baptiste. No need to use windows(). Width and height should be specified in pdf().
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:28 PM, baptiste auguie <baptiste.aug...@googlemail.com> wrote: > No, that's only true for lattice and ggplot2 graphics. The problem > here is with this line, > > windows(width=5, height=5) > > which shouldn't be there. > > HTH, > > baptiste > > On 17 May 2010 22:23, Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you do plotting in a loop, then you need to print it to the device. >> >> print(plot(xj,y)) >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Shirley Bao <baoxi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks! >>> I got an error message when opening the pdf file: "There was an error >>> opening this document. This file cannot be opened because it has no pages." >>> >>> Here is what I did in plotting and saving the file: >>> >>> pdf(file="C:/figure.pdf") >>> for (j in 1:numColumns) >>> { >>> windows(width=5, height=5) >>> >>> plot(xj,y) >>> } >>> dev.off() >>> >>> Any ideas what might cause the problem? Thanks! >>> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> 1.Open pdf device >>>> >pdf() >>>> 2.Do your plotting as many as you want, you won't see the plots on the >>>> screen because they go directly to the pdf() device. >>>> 3.Turn off the pdf() >>>> >dev.off() >>>> Then you can review your plots in the pdf file. For more details see ?pdf >>>> >>>> Jun >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Shirley Bao <baoxi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > I have created separate plots in multiple graphics windows using the >>>> > windows() function in R. >>>> > >>>> > How do I save all the plots in one PDF file? >>>> > >>>> > I tried savePlot("C:/rplot.pdf", type = "pdf"). However, it only saved >>>> > the >>>> > plot in the current graphics window. >>>> > >>>> > Thank you! >>>> > >>>> > [[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. >>>> > >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.