[R] postscript and histogram plots

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sun Nov 12 09:37:08 CET 2006


On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Robert Mintram wrote:

>  The following code plots a little histogram perfectly well under X on

It is not reproducible: please see the footer of this message.

> the screen but when I use the postscript command (also shown) to send 
> this to a file I get an incomplete histogram. It seems to print only the 
> first half of the bins. All headings and axes are OK.
>
>  hist(d[,2],25,xlab="Calls",main="Customer Weekly Profile")
>  # d[,2] is a data vector
>
>  postscript("cust.eps",horizontal=FALSE)
>
>  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Apparently you forgot dev.off(): since this is to a file, file-buffering 
will mean the file is incomplete until you close it.

> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

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