[R] Exporting a Graph that has lines()

R_Learner sschiang8 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 00:43:35 CEST 2008


You guys are completely right...my lines were off the graph. I was also using
points() in addition to lines, so it seems like it needs a pre-specified
range unlike plot().

Thanks!


Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
> R_Learner wrote:
>> I'm trying to export a graph (any form is good). I'm trying to export one
>> that uses plot() then lines(). however, it seems that the jpeg format and
>> the pdf format only takes the first line plot, and doesn't even consider
>> the
>> additional plots. My code is the following:
>> 	
>> output_file<-paste(filez,".pdf",sep="")
>> pdf(output_file)
>> plot((x_data) ~ (y_data), main = filez)
>> lines (x,z,col="red")
>> dev.off()
>>
>> The pdf only comes out with the graph of the plot, and not of the lines.
>> Does anyone know how to export multiple graph items on one plot?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>   
> That shouldn't be a problem, but the above is not reproducible without 
> the data.  Are you sure that you actually executed the dev.off()? 
> (pasting it onto the command line is not enough).
> 
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