[R] Saving R Graph to a file

Robert Baer rbaer at atsu.edu
Sun Nov 4 11:34:24 CET 2012


On 11/4/2012 4:32 AM, Robert Baer wrote:
> Some hints:
> For pdf(), height and width are in inches, not pixels.  dev.off() is 
> necessary after drawing the image for pdf(). The name for the file 
> argument (file="c:/figure.xxx") is file not filename
>
> hist(CO2[,5]) is more interesting
>
> And yes,
> ?pdf
> ?postscript
?png
>
> On 11/3/2012 11:16 PM, frespider wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am not sure why I can't get my plot saved to a file as .ps, I searched
>> online and I found that I have to use something is called 
>> postscript,png or
>> pdf function which I did but still not working.
>>
>> Actually what I have is a matrix with almost 300-400 columns. I need to
>> create a histogram and boxplot for some columns as .ps file (with 
>> reasonable
>> size if i can adjust that would be nice also) so I can import them in my
>> latex code to display a good chart on my report.  And I found out R 
>> display
>> a certain limit of device.
>> Can you please help me code this?
>>
>> This an example I create
>> data(CO2)
>> png(filename="C:/R/figure.png", height=295, width=300, bg="white")
>> hist(CO2[,4])
>> device.off()
>> pdf(filename="C:/R/figure.pdf", height=295, width=300, bg="white")
>> hist(CO2[,4])
>> postscript(filename="C:/R/figure.pdf", height=295, width=300, 
>> bg="white")
>> hist(CO2[,4])
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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