[R] Postscript query

[Ben Bolker]

  You've misunderstood how the postscript() device works, I think.

  You should do

postscript(whatever)
... plot commands ...
dev.off()

dev.print(file="whatever") works more the way you're thinking.

Note, however, that for best results you either (1) want to set your
windows() or x11() device to the same size as your intended output file or
(2) use the postscript()/plot commands/dev.off()  approach; translating
the stored plot commands to a new device isn't always WYSIWYG.



On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Michael Manning wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I am experiencing some interesting results when I attempt to save
> graphical output to a file via "postscript".  I am running R version
> 1.3.0 on a Mandrake 8.0 system under Xemacs 21.1.14 via ESS 5.1.18.
> Once I have generated a graph, I have attempted to save the graph with
> statements like
>
> postscript("myplot.eps",horizontal=FALSE, height=8, width=6)
>
> however, the resulting postscript file appears to be, um, blank (i.e.
> when I open the file in the gimp or some other graphics editor, there
> isn't anything there).
>
> Feedback?
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Manning
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