Thanks for sharing this! I always wondered what was the trick for creating multistage PDFs from R.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:19 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sep 24, 2013, at 13:16, R Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> Rather than use XQuartz, avoid "printing" the image and use the >> pdf()/def.off() commands. Here's an example that I think answers your >> question: >> >> for(i in 1:10){ >> x <- i*1:10 >> y <- sqrt(x) >> pdf(paste("File",i,".pdf",sep="")) >> plot(x,y, main = paste("Test Case",i),type = 'l') >> dev.off() >> } > > Or, move pdf() before and dev.off() after the loop and make one big file with > all the graphs on different pages. > > M >> >> Note that the paste function gives you the file name within the pdf >> function. Check out the ?pdf file to see how to change the width, >> height, or file type. >> >> If you are using ggplot2, ggsave can do similar things. >> >> Does this help? >> >> Richard >> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Paul Ossenbruggen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I am generating within a loop a large number of XQuartz images. I know that >>> I can use the Save As command to save each one individually. This is very >>> time consuming and tedious. Is it possible to save them automatically with >>> a R script command? >>> >>> Thanks for any tip that one can offer. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
