[R] creating a ps. file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Before the loop, open a postscript device with onefile=FALSE, and see the
advice in the postscript help page for how to specify the file argument.  
Then each plot will produce a separate file.  (Remember to do dev.off() 
after the loop.)

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 mike.campana at freesurf.ch wrote:

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

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