Hi Lauren, try it with dev.off() before plotting. Perhaps you have an old window or connection open somewhere.
Bests, Ralph Am Thursday 25 September 2008 14:24:17 schrieb Gough Lauren: > Dear all, > > I am a very new user to R (for windows) (since Monday!) so please excuse > me if I am asking an obvious question! > > I am experiencing some problems with the graphics window - in short, it > keeps disappearing. i.e. I can type > > > x<-c(1,3,6,4,9) > > plot(x) > > No errors are produced, but not graphics window appears either. > > The graphics window tends to work if I plot graphs immediately after > opening R, but after I have had R open for a while and have run several > functions/loaded datasets it stops appearing. > > Does anyone know why this is, I am a little confused! > > Many thanks > > Lauren > > PhD student > School of Geography > University Park > University of Nottingham > NG7 2RD > > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer > system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications > with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK > legislation. > > ______________________________________________ > [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. ______________________________________________ [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.

