Just open a device before you plot: pdf( "plotfile.pdf" ) plot( x, y ) dev.off()
also have a look at: ?Devices Best Bendix ---------------------- Bendix Carstensen Senior Statistician Steno Diabetes Center Niels Steensens Vej 2 DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark tel: +45 44 43 87 38 mob: +45 30 75 87 38 fax: +45 44 43 07 06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.biostat.ku.dk/~bxc ---------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabor > Grothendieck > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:33 PM > To: Hans-Peter > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] plots from batchfile on windows > > > On 6/3/05, Hans-Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On windows I'd like to run a batchfile that leaves me a plot. As a > > test I have the scriptfile "test.r" which only contains: > > > > x <- 1:10; > > y <- sample( 10 ) > > plot( x, y ) > > > > Now I tried the following (but nothing worked): > > > > a) "R --vanilla < test.r" in the cmd window, => that > doesn't give me a > > plot > > b) the same, but I added "bitmap(file="outplot.png")" in the > > scriptfile => Here I get an error that gswin32c.exe was not found. > > (Maybe I need to install ghostscript???) > > c) some attempts with Rgui.exe => I didn't arrive to pass a > command argument. > > > > It would be nice, to get some hints, how this could be done. I did > > search the newsgroup archive, but unfortunately didn't find > something. > > > > This was discussed previously this week. Look right at the end of: > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-June/071147.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html