[R] how to save a plot in a given size in inches or centimeters

[stephen sefick]

isn't there a width height argument in the jpeg function?
?jpeg
I am probably wrong,

Stephen Sefick

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Lo_Lo <tchibadou at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there !
>
> I'm ploting graphics and I'd like to save them as a .jpeg file for example,
> but with a given size (in inches or cm).
>
> I tryed the function windows() but I think it just changes the size of the
> window and not the size of the graph that you're saving.
>
> Then I tryed with the function par(din=(width=... height=...) ) but I guess
> it's protected and I can't change the values.
>
> Finally I tryed with jpeg(file, units="in", width=..., height=...) but R
> asks me for another argument "res" that is supposed to be res=72 dpi or
> res=NA (I found those values in the R-help). It still doesn't work...
> Because of problems of margin, or "can't create a bitmap file" or something
> different again...
>
> Could you give me some advice guys ? It sounds basic to me :) but I'm
> stupidly trapped and I can't find any solutions !!
>
> Thanks a lot
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