[BioC] Error opening pdf files generated using PDF graphic device

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Tue Aug 17 19:03:21 CEST 2010


Hi Hari,

On 8/17/2010 1:00 PM, Hari Easwaran wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to use the pdf graphic device to make some plots and save as pdf
> files. I get the following error when I try to open the pdf file.
> "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not
> be repaired."
>
> The command I am using is:
>
> pdf(file="x.pdf")
>
> boxplot(X[,2:11])

This is a question for R-help, as this has nothing to do with BioC 
packages. But to answer your question, you are missing a call to dev.off().

Best,

Jim


>
> X is a data.frame containing values I want to plot.
>
> Following is my R.version:
> $platform
> [1] "i386-apple-darwin9.8.0"
> $arch
> [1] "i386"
> $os
> [1] "darwin9.8.0"
> $system
> [1] "i386, darwin9.8.0"
> $status
> [1] ""
> $major
> [1] "2"
> $minor
> [1] "11.1"
> $year
> [1] "2010"
> $month
> [1] "05"
> $day
> [1] "31"
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "52157"
> $language
> [1] "R"
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)"
>
> Any help is gratefully appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Hari
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bioconductor mailing list
> Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor
> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor

-- 
James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Douglas Lab
University of Michigan
Department of Human Genetics
5912 Buhl
1241 E. Catherine St.
Ann Arbor MI 48109-5618
734-615-7826
**********************************************************
Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues 



More information about the Bioconductor mailing list