[R] Successive Graphs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, James W. MacDonald wrote:

> Jeff Bricker wrote:
> > There's probably a better way, but what I do in this situation is to
> > capture output to a .pdf that I can page through.
> 
> There are two ways that might be considered better, if better implies 
> doing things from within R.
> 
> 1.) At an R plot, type x11() to start a window, then under the History 
> menu item, click 'Recording'. Now do your plots, and you can go back and 
> forth through them using 'Page up' and 'Page down'.

Better, windows(record=TRUE) to open a graphics device with recording 
turned on.  [x11() is only there for Unix users of R who have trouble 
adjusting to other windowing systems.]

This is the approach the Windows porters of R thought most convenient
(even more convenient that tabbed windows).

> 2.) Set par(ask = TRUE), then submit your code. You will then have to 
> hit return to create each sucessive plot.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> > 
> > pdf("c:/temp/myPlots.pdf",h=8.5,w=11) #this is "landscape" orientation
> > plot(<your arguments here>)
> > dev.off()
> > 
> > You could also run a loop to open a new windows() device for each
> > plot, but that gets messy if you have lots of plots.
> > 
> > On 9/11/06, Paternostro.Amy at epamail.epa.gov
> > <Paternostro.Amy at epamail.epa.gov> wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello! I have written an R script on a Windows platform where I
> >>calculate eight result matrices I plot using matplot. I would like to
> >>display the resulting plots successively, rather than simultaneously,
> >>and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction as
> >>to how to do this. The graphs pop up in this manner by default when I
> >>run my script in S-PLUS, with tabs separating them so I can view each
> >>graph at my leisure. However when I run my script in R, each graph pops
> >>up only for a moment before it is replaced by the next until I am left
> >>with only the plot of the eighth matrix at the end of the script. Thanks
> >>in advance for your help!
> >>
> >>Amy Paternostro
> >>National Center for Environmental Economiccs
> >>United States Environmental Protection Agency
> >>1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
> >>Washington, DC  20460
> >>Paternostro.Amy at epamail.epa.gov
> >>
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