[R] PDF Corrupted?

Bryan Hanson hanson at depauw.edu
Wed Oct 28 01:48:11 CET 2009


Looks like you need to do dev.off() after the plot to properly close the
file.

Bryan
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Bryan Hanson
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Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
DePauw University, Greencastle IN USA



On 10/27/09 8:42 PM, "rkevinburton at charter.net" <rkevinburton at charter.net>
wrote:

> I am running R 2.9.2 and creating a PDF that I am trying to open with Adobe
> Reader 9.2 but when I try to open it the reader responds with
> 
> "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and cannot be
> repaired.:
> 
> I am using the R command(s):
> 
> pdf(file="cat.pdf", title="Historical Sales By Category")
> for(j in 1:length(master))
> {
>     d <- as.Date(master[[j]]$Period[1], format="%m/%d/%Y")
>     fit <- ets(ts(master[[j]]$Quantity, start=c(1900 + as.POSIXlt(d)$year, 1 +
> as.POSIXlt(d)$mon), frequency=12))
>     plot(fit, col.axis = "sky blue", col.lab = "thistle")
>     title(master[[j]]$Category,
>           cex.main = 2,   font.main= 4, col.main= "blue")
> }
> 
> Any idea what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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