[Rd] Saving a plot from R-LINUX(2)

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 13 03:15:28 CET 2006


For jpeg see ?dev2bitmap as well as my earlier reply.

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 Augusto.Sanabria at ga.gov.au wrote:

> Dirk,
>
> Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply.
>
> Please have a look at my comments below:
>
>
> On 13 January 2006 at 11:02, Augusto.Sanabria at ga.gov.au wrote:
> | Is there any way to save a plot produced by
> | R in a LINUX (Debian) machine?
>
> (Dirk)It is the same on every platform and ...
>
> (Augusto) No, I can see an option to save my plot from  the plot window
> in MS Windows. That option does not exist in the LINUX window,
> does it? (maybe there is something wrong with my LINUX config.)
>
> say, I have an arbitrary set of data x,y (not a pdf).
> I can plot the data using plot(x,y) and I can see the plot
> in a plot window in LINUX.
>
> The problem is: how can I save that plot into an external
> file? I expect to find a command like:
>
> save_a_displayed_plot("myplot1","jpeg","/mnt/store")
>
> Then, I expect to find the file myplot1.jpeg in "store".
>
> I have read the documentation, sect. 1.6, and found no reference
> to this problem.
>
> Again, thank you for your reply.
>
> Augusto
>
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