[R] Two Questions

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 20/04/2011 9:23 AM, Stephen P Molnar wrote:
> Sorry for the somewhat nondescript subject line, but I have two questions:
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> 1.        What is a really good book on R for a nonprogrammer?

Any book that teaches you the basics of programming would be good, it 
doesn't need to be about R.  If you want to use R and remain as a 
nonprogrammer, you will not have any easy time.

> 2.       How do I open more than one R Graphics: Device 2(ACTIVE).  That
> what is the R command that I can use to keep more than one plot open.  I am
> running a script from a book on Chemometrics that results in more than one
> graph during the execution, but it seems that R deletes each graph when the
> script calls for the next plot.
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dev.new()  will open a new plot window, and subsequent plotting commands 
will be drawn there.  dev.set() lets you switch back to drawing on the 
original one.

Duncan Murdoch

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