[R] Saving multiple 3x3 TIFF graphics inside a loop

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Tue May 10 11:57:47 CEST 2011



On 10.05.2011 03:36, John S wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I have been trying to save multiple 3x3 (mfrow=c(3,3) graphics inside a loop
> using tiff figure format (not using PDF or savePlot functions) with no
> success. Could you please help?
>
> Here is a simplified example code:
>
>
>
> dat=data.frame (ID=rep(1:10,each=10),IDV=rep(seq(1:10),times=10))
>
> dat$DV<- with(dat, 50+15*IDV)
>
> dat=dat[order(dat$ID,dat$IDV),]
>
> for(i in 1:10){
>
>     dt1 = dat[dat$ID==i,]
>
>     pagei=as.integer(ceiling(i/9))
>
>     #This does not work
>
>     if(i==1) {tiff(file=paste("Outfile",pagei,".tiff",sep="")
>
>       ,width=17.15,height=17.15,units="cm", res=1200, pointsize=10,
> compression = "lzw")}

You may not be able to allocate space for this huge tiffs (at least I am 
not able to do so under Windows).



>    if(i==10) {tiff(file=paste("Outfile",pagei,".tiff",sep="")
>
>       ,width=17.15,height=17.15,units="cm", res=1200, pointsize=10,
> compression = "lzw")}
>
>     par(mar=c(5,5,4,1),mfrow=c(3,3))
>
>     plot(dt1[, "IDV"],dt1[, "DV"], type="n")
>
>     lines(dt1[, "IDV"], dt1[, "DV"], type="b", col=1,lwd=3,pch=1)
>
>     title(paste(i),col=8,cex=.8)
>
>   if(i==9) dev.off ## close file

Your forgot parentheses after dev.off.

Uwe Ligges


> }
>
> dev.off()
>
>   The idea is to save 2 files with 3x3 layouts but I only get one subject in
> Outfile1.
>
>
>
> OS: Windows 7 64 bits
>
> R version 2.13.0
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> John
>
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