[R] creating a ps. file

[Uwe Ligges]

mike.campana at freesurf.ch wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> I wrote a routine. At the end of each cycle of the loop I would like to 
> save the result (plot) in a postcriptfile.
> Of course if I just use dev.print in the following way: 
> dev.print(device=postcript, 'c:/Rfigures/plot_1.ps")
> I overwrite my results with the second cycle of the loop. I suppose 
> there is a way to define the file name so that several plots are 
> created(plot_1,plot_2...).

Two comments:

a) You might want to use postscript() directly with its argument 
onefile=FALSE.

b) construct the filename with an index you are using in the loop (say "i"):
   dev.print(device=postscript,
     file = paste("c:/Rfigures/plot_", i, ".ps", sep = ""))


Uwe Ligges


> Could you give me an advice? Thanks a lot
> 
> Best Regards 
> Mike
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