[R] export figure by pdf command

[MacQueen, Don]

Works for me, so you will have to provide more information.

> x11()
> hist(rnorm(100))
> dev.copy2pdf(file='mytest.pdf')
X11 
  2 
> list.files(patt='mytest')
[1] "mytest.pdf"

-Don


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On 1/29/13 1:22 PM, "hp wan" <huaping.wan at gmail.com> wrote:

>Can you implement it using my provided example? I read the user guide
>about dev.copy2pdf
>but I still failed.
>
>Thanks
>
>2013/1/30 ilai <keren at math.montana.edu>
>
>> ?dev.copy2pdf
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:48 PM, hp wan <huaping.wan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear R mailing listers,
>>>
>>>
>>> After plotting, I wanna save it as file in pdf format using
>>> pdf("name.pdf")
>>> command. It failed, but I can do it by GUI operation (file-save
>>>as-pdf).
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>>
>>> x11()
>>> hist(x, breaks = 50, probability = FALSE)
>>> pdf("hist.pdf")
>>>
>>>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
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