[R] Plots automatically closing when using RScript

[Rhizomorph]

Gabor, thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, I know that I can always save the
output to a file, but the goal was to be able to leave the window up and
allow the user a chance to inspect/resize it before they saved it.


Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 
> Try this:
> 
> Rscript -e "png('abc.png');plot(1:10);dev.off()" && abc.png
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Rhizomorph <khufu_lotus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to be able to run an R script from the command line using
>> RScript.exe. The problem is, my script generates some plots which are
>> being
>> automatically closed as soon as the script reaches its end. Is there a
>> way
>> to force the plot windows to remain open until the user explicitly closes
>> them?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Rscript --vanilla -e "plot(1:100)"
>>
>> The above line will create a plot that exists for a split second and then
>> is
>> gone - this seems like completely retarded behavior for a programming
>> language that is so dependent upon plots.
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