[BioC] dev.copy and rRcript

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Amanda,

Amanda Miotto wrote:
>    I have a Bioconductor based script running that uses dev.copy and dev.off to
>    save images to my hard drive which works well. However, when I try to run it
>    with Rscript (from the terminal) instead of R, it doesn't save the images as
>    it should, and a file called Rplots.pdf has been created. How do I get
>    around this?
>    gdPlot(yeplotlist,labelCex=1)
>    filename<-paste(currentgene,"graph.jpeg",sep="")
>    dev.copy(jpeg, filename, width = 1000, units = "px")
>    dev.off()

Using dev.copy() seems needlessly complex. If you want a jpeg, why don't 
you use the jpeg() function?

jpeg("graph.jpeg", width=1000)
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

Works identically for me interactively and via Rscript.

Best,

Jim


>    Thanks,
>    Amanda Miotto
>    a.miotto at griffith.edu.au
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