[R] save program results and graphs to one file

[Henrik Bengtsson]

If you're happy with outputting to a multi-page PDF, then you can just
set the default graphics device to pdf(), i.e.

> options(device=pdf)

and the start plotting:

> plot(1:10, col=0)
> plot(10:1, col=1)
> plot((1:10)^2, col=2)
> plot((10:1)^2, col=3)

and at the end make sure to close the device:

> dev.off()

(The PDF device was automatically opened with the first plot call -
all other figures are appended to this one.)


This is what happens implicitly when you run a script in a
non-interactive session, e.g.

    Rscript -f myscript.R

That is, in that case you don't have to set the 'device' options (it's
done for you by default) and you don't have to close it at the end,
because that is also done for you by default.

/Henrik



On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
> But in addition to what Jeff noted, see ?save and ?save.image
>
> (noting that that the resulting .Rdata file can only be read by R).
>
> Cheers,
> Bert
>
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> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Jeff Newmiller
> <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>> In general this depends what you plan to do with those results. I suspect you are looking for something like knitr with rmarkdown (.Rmd files to create HTML or Word) or LaTeX (.Rnw files to create PDF).
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>> On February 1, 2015 12:05:47 PM PST, Ragia Ibrahim <ragia11 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Dear group,
>>>
>>>I have many plots and numeric results in my R program,  kindly how can
>>>I save them all sequently on one file.
>>>thanks in advance
>>>RAI
>>>
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