[R] pdf() function, screen command and graphs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Works perfectly (if garishly) for me in R 1.8.1.
Perhaps you could benefit from an R upgrade?

[I presume a line got wrapped, BTW, and if you had made good use of your
space bar it would not have produced invalid code ....]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Dominique Couturier wrote:

> Dear [R]-list,
> 
> I am trying to do a pdf() of the following graphs but don't understand 
> why the pdf() function does produce an empty pdf file.
> (I use R1.7.0 on MacOS 10.2.8)
> any idea? Is pdf() incompatible with screen?
> Thanks a lot,
> DLC
> 
> ## create dataset
> x=rnorm(1000,10,2)
> y=rpois(1000,5)
> 
> ## graphs
>   pdf()
>    par(col.main=4,omi=c(0,0,1.25,0))
>          split.screen(c(1,2))
>          screen(1);split.screen(c(2,1))
> 
>          screen(3) ## gauche en haut
>          boxplot(x,col=3,main="my boxplot")
> 
>          screen(2) ## droite seul
>          barplot(table(y),col=4,main="my barplot")
> 
>          screen(4) ## gauche en bas
>          qqnorm(x,main="mon qqnorm");qqline(x,col=5)
>          mtext(paste("Graphics are important","\n","I love 
> R"),side=3,col=2,cex=1.5,outer=T)
>    dev.off()
> 
> ## remove dataset
>   rm(x,y)
> 
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