Thanks all, I added the dev.off() and although it didn't solve it it no doubt tidies things up on closing. I have got it working now, it is something in the plot(....) line, as removing all teh options solves it. I will work through adding them in one by one!
Kenny Mario Valle wrote: > > Has tried to close the image file at the end? > Do: > dev.off() > > Hope it helps > mario > Kenny Larsen wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Have spent the last couple of days learning R and shell scripting to do >> batch plotting jobs. I have had success getting R to complete a filled >> contour plot and output to a file (.jpg or .tiff etc). However, when I >> try >> to do the same thing with the simple plot command the script seems to >> execute correctly yet there is no output. Below is my R code: >> >> file <- Sys.getenv("input_file") >> tiff(paste( file, "tiff", sep=".")) >> z <- read.table(file) >> plot(z, type="l", xlim=range(0.6,2), col = "red", plot.title = title(main >> = >> file, xlab = "Wavelength (um)", ylab = "Intensity (arb.)) >> q() >> >> The data file is simply 2 columns of real numbers. The system it is >> running >> on is a linux box from the command line, but does have the Xlibrarys and >> can >> clearly write tiff's as it managed it with the filled contours. >> >> Bear in mind I only started with both linux and R a couple of days ago, >> so >> be gentle if it is something silly! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Kenny >> >> > > > -- > Ing. Mario Valle > Data Analysis and Visualization Group | > http://www.cscs.ch/~mvalle > Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) | Tel: +41 (91) > 610.82.60 > v. Cantonale Galleria 2, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) > 610.82.82 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Issues-getting-R-to-write-image-files-tp23977785p23978106.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.