[R] how to save multiple plots in one PDF file?

[Jun Shen]

Thanks for pointing that out, baptiste.

No need to use windows(). Width and height should be specified in pdf().

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:28 PM, baptiste auguie
<baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com> wrote:
> No, that's only true for lattice and ggplot2 graphics. The problem
> here is with this line,
>
> windows(width=5, height=5)
>
> which shouldn't be there.
>
> HTH,
>
> baptiste
>
> On 17 May 2010 22:23, Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you do plotting in a loop, then you need to print it to the device.
>>
>> print(plot(xj,y))
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Shirley Bao <baoxinli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks!
>>> I got an error message when opening the pdf file: "There was an error
>>> opening this document. This file cannot be opened because it has no pages."
>>>
>>> Here is what I did in plotting and saving the file:
>>>
>>> pdf(file="C:/figure.pdf")
>>> for (j in 1:numColumns)
>>> {
>>> windows(width=5, height=5)
>>>
>>> plot(xj,y)
>>> }
>>> dev.off()
>>>
>>> Any ideas what might cause the problem? Thanks!
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jun Shen <jun.shen.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 1.Open pdf device
>>>> >pdf()
>>>> 2.Do your plotting as many as you want, you won't see the plots on the
>>>> screen because they go directly to the pdf() device.
>>>> 3.Turn off the pdf()
>>>> >dev.off()
>>>> Then you can review your plots in the pdf file. For more details see ?pdf
>>>>
>>>> Jun
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Shirley Bao <baoxinli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > I have created separate plots in multiple graphics windows using the
>>>> > windows() function in R.
>>>> >
>>>> > How do I save all the plots in one PDF file?
>>>> >
>>>> > I tried savePlot("C:/rplot.pdf", type = "pdf"). However, it only saved
>>>> > the
>>>> > plot in the current graphics window.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you!
>>>> >
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