[R] Not saving plot

[Ben Tupper]

On Sep 28, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Joel wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I got a strange problem.
> 
> I got this code:
> poc<-function(USER="nana",REGISTRY="nana",...){
> require(RMySQL)
> require(R2HTML)
> require(lattice)
> 
> ... (removed the dataprocessing)
> 
> 
> toReturn=capture.output(HTML(as.title("En liten
> rapport!"),file="",align="center"))
> fileDir<-paste("/home/joel/tmpR/rikssvikt/",USER,sep="");
> fileName<-tempfile(pattern="UTT1", tmpdir="");
> try(png(paste(fileDir,fileName,".png",sep="")));
> barchart(toPlot,xlab="Antal körningar");
> dev.off();
> gfn <-paste("filemanager?USERID=",USER,"&file=",fileName,".png",sep="");
> tmp<-capture.output(HTMLInsertGraph(file="",GraphFileName=gfn));
> toReturn<-paste(toReturn,substr(tmp,1,nchar(tmp)-8));
> 
> return(paste("<div>",toReturn[2],"</div>",sep=""))
> }
> 
> When I just run the code without its being in the function in works and
> saves the plot at the designated location. But when I instead try to run the
> code when its inside the function it dossent save the plot at all.
> Anyone know why that is?
> 

Hi,

Might this be related to R FAQ 7.22?  

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html

Cheers,
Ben



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Ben Tupper
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