[R] Is there some way to append to a pdf after its device has been closed?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Mon, 29-Dec-2008 at 02:57PM -0500, Alex Pine wrote:

|> Hello all,
|> 

|> My question has to do with writing to pdf/ps files. Currently, my R
|> program requires 100+ pdf devices to be open, which is over the
|> limit of 64 devices that can be open at the same time, causing R to
|> throw an exception. My problem could be solved if I could append to
|> a pdf file after its initial device has been closed, but so far I

If you told us why you've closed the device, we'd understand what your
problem is.  Why can't you keep the same device open and as many pages
as you like will be appended before you do the dev.off() thing?  You
can change par settings for the individual pages if necessary.

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HTH
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