Did you do that on a linux machine, or on OS X with X11 running?
Because it seemed to me that the r.png device required X11.

On Jan 24, 1:38 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 9:24 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > OK I think I have learned a little.  The following code seems to flush
> > the output properly, and sends it to the current cell.
>
> > r.postscript(os.curdir+'/out.ps')
> > r.par(ann=0)
> > values = [x for x in srange(0,float(pi),.1)]
> > r.plot(values, [sin(x) for x in values], type='lines')
> > r.dev_off()
>
> Cool.  The following slight variant plots perfectly in any cell, etc.,
> and doesn't
> display any funny cruft:
>
> from rpy import r
> r.png(os.curdir+'/sage.png')
> r.par(ann=0)
> values = [x for x in srange(0,float(pi),.1)]
> r.plot(values, [cos(x^2) for x in values], type='l')
> _ = r.dev_off()
>
> Now somebody needs to start on the "nice usage of R from Sage" package for
> Sage, which will have a plot wrapper, etc., etc.,  This would likely go in 
> *the*
> already existing directory
>
>     SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/sage/stats/
>
> In fact, it would be best if like with symbolic calculus we view this
> as a general
> package for doing statistics, which just happens to built almost entirely on 
> R.
> But we could also provide hooks into some of the very formidable (or
> not?) statistics
> capabilities of SciPy.
>
>  -- William
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