Wow! Exactly what I needed. Thank you, Professor Ripley!
Charles Annis, P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:01 PM To: Charles Annis, P.E. Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] saving intermediate graphics On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote: > Greetings, R-friends: > > I'm using R 2.3.1 on a DELL box with 2 gig, running WindowsXP Pro. > > I am making what is admittedly a very busy plot composed of qq plots with > superimposed density() plots. I need to show everything and the result is > messy, but informative. > > If I produce the basic qq plot, and then add incrementally to it, saving the > graphic at each step, the sequence does make the entire exercise > understandable. (Honest!) > > I can do this easily by clicking on the plot and saving it to PowerPoint as > a metafile. > > I would like to automate the process. I know how to produce win.metafiles, > but closing the file with dev.off() to produce the first graphic means that > I can't add to that and produce the subsequent graphic and file. > > Is there a way to do this without generating the entire plot from the > beginning for each graphic? Have you tried savePlot()? It should work incrementally. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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 ______________________________________________ [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
