[R] Saving R Graph to a file

Muhuri, Pradip (SAMHSA/CBHSQ) Pradip.Muhuri at samhsa.hhs.gov
Sun Nov 4 13:09:33 CET 2012


Hello,

#Example 1: The following code to save svyboxplots works for me

pdf("boxplots_dthage.pdf", width = 1020) # 4 boxplots in 2 columns and 2 rows
par(mfrow=c(2,2),  oma=c(0,0,0,0))
# svyboxplot commands not shown
dev.off()


#Example 2: The following code to save a ggplot graph works for me:
# ggolot () not shown
print (p)
ggsave(file='Xfacet_abodill_age3.pdf', width=12, height=8) 


Thanks,

Pradip Muhuri
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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Robert Baer [rbaer at atsu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 5:32 AM
To: frespider
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Subject: Re: [R] Saving R Graph to a file

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
?ping

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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