[R] Saving plot into file without showing it

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 20:39:40 CET 2009


pdf("yourFile.pdf")
plot(1)
plot(2)
plot(3)
.....
dev.off()

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM, julien cuisinier
<j_cuisinier at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
>
> My apologies in advance if question is simplistic, I am quite new to R graphics capabilities and I could not find anything in past threads...
>
> I use R 2.8.1 under Mac OS X, but I would preferrably have a cross platform answer as I use also R under Windows
>
> I produce plots using R & save them in a file
>
> e.g. below:
>
> y <- rnorm(1000)
> x <- rnorm(1000)
> plot(x,y)
> dev.copy2pdf()
>
> Until there fine, it create a pdf file that is composed of my plot...My "issues" are the following:
> 1. If I want to produce the plot & save it directly in a pdf file without viewing it, how do I do that?
> 2. Can I create several plots in a row (without showing them in Quartz or whatever other graphic device) and save them all in separate files after creation? for example a function that would save me in separate files all what is visible through dev.list()
>
> Let's keep the example of saving in pdf format here...I do not have target file type for saving the graphics. The point is that I would have another piece of code (HTML I guess, not developed yet) fetching all the charts and presenting it nicely.
>
>
> Any feedback is appreciated
>
> Many thanks
> Julien
>
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