Dear Sir,

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. In the meantime I came across 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10587621/how-to-print-to-paper-a-nicely-formatted-data-frame

and got to know about the package "gridExtra"

So I used following code 

png(filename = "output1.png", width=480,height=480)
grid.table(output1)

dev.off()

And that solved it. 

Thanks again Sir for suggesting other two  pacakages 'lattice' or 'ggplot2' as definitely I will like to decipher these two.

I understand before posting the mail to the forum, I should have tried old mails etc, but I was bit desperate to know the solution and somehow I felt it's a stupid thing to do so. I will remember it next time.

Regards

Katherine



--- On Fri, 21/12/12, jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com> wrote:

From: jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [R] Can data.frame be saved as image?
To: "Katherine Gobin" <katherine_gobin@yahoo.com>
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Date: Friday, 21 December, 2012, 2:39 PM

do you want to save the dataframe used in the plot and then the plot
itself?  If so consider using 'lattice' or 'ggplot2' which create an
object for "print" and this would allow you to use 'save' to save both
objects in a file.

If you want to generate the 'png' file, the you would have to 'save'
the dataframe and then 'zip' the .RData and png file into a new file.

So what is it that you intend to do with the data that is saved in the
common file?

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Katherine Gobin
<katherine_gobin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear R forum
>
> I have one stupid question, but I have no other solution to it in sight?
>
> Suppose some R process creates graphs etc alongwith main output as data.frame e.g
>
> output1 = data.frame(bands = c("A", "B", "C"), results = c(74, 108,  65))
>
> I normally save this output as some csv file.
>
> But I need to save this output as some image (I understand this is weird, but I need to find out some way to do so) e.g. for graph, I use 'png' as
>
> png("histogram.png", width=480,height=480)
>
> .....................
>
> ..................
>
> dev.off()
>
> Please advise.
>
> Regards
>
> Katherine
>
>
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