[R] simultaneous plots

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, David Epstein wrote:

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> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
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>> How about dev.copy2pdf ?
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> I put the following into a script:
> quartz(...)
> ....#many graphics commands
> dev.copy2pdf(pdf,file="ratio1.pdf")

Just

dev.copy2pdf(file="ratio1.pdf")



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> and then sourced the script. I got the error message
> Error in pdfFonts(family) :
>  invalid arguments in 'pdfFonts' (must be font names)
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> I found the various help files on dev.copy and dev.next, etc very hard to
> understand. And I have no idea how to fix the error. I'm trying to use
> defaults as much as I can.
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> Could you possibly give a few more lines of code by way of example, Brian?
> And is a dev.off() command needed after the dev.copy(....)?
> Thanks a lot for your helpful replies to so many queries. They are much
> appreciated.
> David
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