[R] probleme with savePlot (to eps)

[David Winsemius]

Unfortunately your burning desire to use savePlot for this purpose is  
not going to reconfigure the capabilities of that function. Just read  
the help page of savePlot:

savePlot {grDevices}
R Documentation
Save Cairo X11 Plot to FileDescription
Save the current page of a cairo X11() device to a file.

Usage
savePlot(filename = paste("Rplot", type, sep="."), type = c("png",  
"jpeg", "tiff", "bmp"), device = dev.cur())
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Do you see "ps" or "eps" in the supported types? I do not. Why would  
you expect be a warning not to use a type of device that was not  
documented as possible.
Have you looked at dev.copy or dev.print as a method of getting the  
user choice of screen displayed graphics to an output file?
-- 
David Winsemius



On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote:

> Thanks for your answer.
>> Use the postscript device to save .ps or .eps files.
> Unfortunatly, I can't. I am using savePlot in a package. Several  
> graphs (up to 100) are exported at the same time and I would like  
> the user to chose the extension. It is why I need savePlot.
>
> Beside, I did not find any warning again postscript in the help page  
> for savePlot. Where did you get this information ? I am using R 2.8.1
>
> Christophe
>> The help page for savePlot does not suggest that it would be of any  
>> value in saving plots as postscript files.
>>
>> ?postscript
>> ?Devices
>>
>