[R] plot pdf

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Sat Oct 30 17:50:31 CEST 2010



On 30.10.2010 17:23, mmstat at comcast.net wrote:
>
>
> Subject: plot
>
> Your recent reply has got me underway.  However the savePlot command is not working.
> I am following refman example. Any thoughts?
>
> I am on a new windows 7 os.  I am not sure how to open a new device (output graphic
>   window).  I wonder if that could be the problem?
>
> R Code
> xcrit=135.9
> cord.x<- c(80,seq(80,xcrit,.1),xcrit)
>   cord.y<- c(0, dnorm(seq(80, xcrit, .1), 140, 15), 0)
>   curve(dnorm(x,140,15),xlim=c(80,200),main='Normal PDF',ylab="Probability")
>   polygon(cord.x,cord.y,col='orange')
>   savePlot(filename="c:\\lower.emf",type=c("emf"), device = dev.cur(),restoreConsole = TRUE)

Probably you do not have administrator permissions when running R and 
hence you cannot write to c:\ directly.

Uwe Ligges


> Warning messages:
> 1: In savePlot(filename = "c:\\lower.emf", type = c("emf"), device = dev.cur(),  :
>    Unable to open metafile 'c:\lower.emf' for writing
> 2: In savePlot(filename = "c:\\lower.emf", type = c("emf"), device = dev.cur(),  :
>    opening device failed
>
> Sincerely,
> Mary A. Marion
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