[R] Executing an R script and show the plots.

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26643852/ggplot-plots-in-scripts-do-not-display-in-rstudio

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On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 7:30 AM Felix Blind <felixblind using gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear R users,
>
> i am a python user trying to get my statistical knowledge up to speed
> and R is the language for that.
> I would like to run R scripts like that: R -f script.r and still get the
> plots that pop up.
>
> When I type the following code in the R REPL I get a nice plot:
>
>
> library(ggplot2)
>
> data("midwest",
>
> package="ggplot2")
>
> ggplot(midwest, aes(x=area, y=poptotal)) + geom_point()
>
> But when I put the same code in a file script.r and run it with R -f
> script.r or if I source it in the REPL with source("script.r") I do not
> get any plots shown.
>
> Can you guys tell me what I do wrong. (Apart from either using RStudio
> or the REPL exclusively)
>
> Kind regards,
> Felix
>
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