Edoardo,
I'm wondering why
postscript(file=filename)
doesn't suffice, and you need to use "eval" instead?
Regards,
Andrew C. Ward
CAPE Centre
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane Qld 4072 Australia
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Quoting Edoardo Airoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hello all,
> I am trying to print a ps file as part of a function as in:
>
> func <- function (..., filename="temp.ps") {
> # some stuff
> [...]
>
> # plot
> eval( cat("postscript(\"",filename,"\")\n", sep="") )
> plot(...)
> abline(...)
> dev.off()
>
> # more stuff
> [...]
> }
>
> but it does not work. Nor it does with 'paste' instead of
> 'cat'. In
> order to make it work I have to call:
> > postscript("temp.ps")
> > func(...)
> > dev.off()
>
> I am wondering why is that? How can I make my call to
> postscript within a
> function sort of 'global' ??
> thanks
> Edo
>
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