[R] saving plot both as jpg and pdf

Tomas Lanczos lanczos at fns.uniba.sk
Tue Jul 22 17:37:44 CEST 2008


Just an advice: I recommend use the png device instead of jpeg for 
plotting purposes, it gives better results for graphs. Jpeg is better 
for photos. Off course IMHO :-)

I wish a nice day

Tomas

stephen sefick wrote:
> you have to go in sequence- you are opening a pdf device then a jpeg 
> device
> and ploting to the jpeg device.  My suggestion would be to do
> pdf()
> plot(yourplot)
> dev.off()
>
> jpeg
> plot(yourplot)
> dev.off()
>
> this should work
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Monica Pisica <pisicandru at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to save a plot automatically as a pdf and jpg, and if I open 
>> the pdf
>> device first and jpeg second only the jpeg file saves correctly �. If 
>> I do
>> reverse, only the pdf file saves correctly.
>>
>> pdf('E:/my_graphs/test1.pdf', bg = "white")
>> jpeg('E:/my_graphs/test1.jpg', quality = 100, bg = "white", res = 200,
>> width = 7, height = 7, units = "in")
>> plot(seq(1, 10), seq(1, 10))
>> dev.off()
>> dev.off()
>>
>> In this case the pdf is not saved correctly and cannot be viewed by 
>> Adobe �
>> the error is "it has no pages". If the jpeg device is first open �. 
>> It will
>> save an empty page. Of course I can open one device at a time have 
>> the plot
>> saved and close that device, and open it again and do same thing, but I
>> think I should be able to have the plot command only once. I am 
>> working on a
>> Windows machine, R.2.7.0.
>>
>> Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Monica
>>
>>
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