[R] R graphs differ from exported one

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Usually this happens when you forget to run dev.off(), as in that 
example.

But we don't have the

    commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

the posting guide and the footer of every R message asks for.

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Mark Seeto wrote:

>
> Raptorista wrote:
>>
>> Now, the graph that appears is very nice: indeed it has a title, two
>> axes with their labels and all the rest;
>> but when I give commands
>>
>> postscript(file="plot.eps", onefile=FALSE)
>> qqnorm (col)
>>
>> to save the graph to a file "plot.eps" to include it in a TeX, the file
>> created has nothing to do with the former one: it only has "the graph
>> part", i.e. no title, no labels, no axes....
>>
>>
>
> I use R under Windows, and I've seen the same sort of thing. I usually save
> graphs as PDF or PNG files, which works fine, but on the rare occasions I've
> tried to save graphs as Postscript, some of the graphs end up saving with
> bits missing.
>
>
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