[R] R graphs differ from exported one

[Mark Seeto]

I didn't include code because I wasn't asking for help; I was merely
commenting that I had seen the same thing happen. But thank you for
mentioning dev.off, which I had not heard of before.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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