David Winsemius <[email protected]> writes: Aha.. thankyou, I was not aware of that.
> Now you have changed plotting functions from plot and barplot over to > barchart (a Lattice function) and were not aware of FAQ 7.22: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-do-lattice_002ftrellis-graphics-not-work_003f > > -- > David. >> >> >> Tal Galili <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Could you please paste the exact code you are using? (the one with >>> the pdf and >>> dev.off, outside the loop ) >>> >>> ----------------Contact >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> David Winsemius <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Tal Galili <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> I suspect that using "dev.copy2eps" Is not going to help you here. >>>>>> >>>>>> Please try again using: >>>>>> >>>>>> pdf(...) # Check: ?pdf >>>>>> for(i in something) >>>>>> { >>>>>> plot(things) >>>>>> } >>>>>> dev.off() >>>>>> >>>>>> But give pdf() the file path. >>>>>> Make sure you can make it work with simple plots. then check it >>>>>> on >>>>>> your >>>>>> situation, and let us know if it works :) >>>>>> (I had it work with very heavy plots - so I trust it will work for >>>>>> you) >>>>>> >>>>>> (p.s: please keep cc'ing the r-help list so others will know the >>>>>> stage of your >>>>>> problem, in case others would like to add more help :) ) >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Tal >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The problem is that the filename changes with each iteration of the >>>>> loop, so I need to >>>>> save the graph inside the loop. >>>>> I tried this: >>>>> >>>>> for(...) >>>>> { >>>>> ... >>>>> pdf(...) >>>>> barplot(...) >>>>> } >>>>> >>>>> but I just got a load of empty graphs. >>>> >>>> Because you failed to follow Ted directions to use dev.off() >>>> >>>> pdf() just opens the file for writing, dev.off() executes the >>>> writing >>>> and closes properly. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> David. >>> I just tried with dev.off() but still the same problem. >>> I tried with pdf() and dev.off() inside the loop, and with them >>> outside >>> (pdf before the loop, >>> and dev.off after). Same results each time: an empty pdf file. >>> I am using R version 2.11.1 if this makes any difference. >>> -- >>> aleblanc > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT -- aleblanc ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
