[R] PDF Corrupted?

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at me.com
Wed Oct 28 01:45:46 CET 2009


On Oct 27, 2009, at 7:42 PM, rkevinburton at charter.net wrote:

> I am running R 2.9.2 and creating a PDF that I am trying to open  
> with Adobe Reader 9.2 but when I try to open it the reader responds  
> with
>
> "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and  
> cannot be repaired.:
>
> I am using the R command(s):
>
> pdf(file="cat.pdf", title="Historical Sales By Category")
> for(j in 1:length(master))
> {
>    d <- as.Date(master[[j]]$Period[1], format="%m/%d/%Y")
>    fit <- ets(ts(master[[j]]$Quantity, start=c(1900 + as.POSIXlt(d) 
> $year, 1 + as.POSIXlt(d)$mon), frequency=12))
>    plot(fit, col.axis = "sky blue", col.lab = "thistle")
>    title(master[[j]]$Category,
>          cex.main = 2,   font.main= 4, col.main= "blue")
> }
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kevin



You are not closing the PDF file with dev.off() when you are done  
plotting...

HTH,

Marc Schwartz




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