[R] Help - "plot" function in Windows

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 01:10:49 CET 2015


On 16/01/2015 1:18 PM, Nafiseh Mehdipour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing regarding to my problem about using "plot" function. I am using "R x64 3.1.1" (installed on Windows 7 SP1 (laptop Sony VGN-SR) ), and when I use type this code:
> 
> 
>> x <- c(-30,30)
>> y <- c(-5,5)
>> plot.window(x , y)
> 
> or any other form of "plot" function, it doesn't show anything. I used

What are you expecting to see?  As the help says, plot.window() doesn't
plot anything, it just sets up the coordinates.  Use plot(x, y) to plot
the two points in your vectors.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
>> dev.off()
> 
> to set the graphic device to the default of R or null, but it didn't help. Then I used:
> 
>> png(filename="name.png")
>> plot.window(x , y)
>> dev.off()
> 
> to see the output as an image instead. But this is time consuming for me to do that every time to see the output. Please help me to resolve this problem.
> 
> Very looking forward to your reply.
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> Nafiseh.
> 
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