[R] how to print a plot

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You did use dev.off() to finish the plots before trying to look at them?
The symptoms you report are what happens if you did not.

There is no ps() function in R: the postscript device is postscript() not 
ps().

If you want to print a plot, try dev.print.  If you want to copy to a 
file, try dev.copy2eps.  (You are on Linux, where EPS is more widely 
acceptable than PDF.)

On 15 Sep 2003, Weiming Zhang wrote:

> Hi, Thank both of you.
> 
> I tried everything. pdf(file="out.pdf") gave me a damaged pdf file. ps()
> did not print. ps("out.ps") gave me a ps file with badly drawn graph and
> could not be printed. I am using RH linux 7.2.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> weiming Zhang
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:06, Jason Turner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:56, Weiming Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am using R-1.7.1 on Linux. I integrated XEMACS with R. Could anybody
> > > tell me how to print a plot? I used plot function to make some graphs
> > > and then I wanted to print them or to save them to files. But I could
> > > not find out how to do it.
> > 
> > Have you tried:
> > help(Devices) 
> > help(pdf)
> > 
> > What I do:
> > 
> > pdf(file="myplots.pdf")
> > plot(...)
> > dev.off()
> > 
> > Use Acrobat or gv to view the pdf files.  Postscript is also good, but
> > not as universally understood; I have many coleagues who work in very
> > standard Windows environments, where ghostscript is unknown.  PDF is a
> > very sensible choice for e-mailing graphs.
> > 
> > 
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