Hi Mike, I am using Windows 7 x64 with > sessionInfo() R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) x86_64-pc-mingw32
First off the Rplots.pdf is created by your call to plot(). Just like the console output is diverted when running scripts, it does not make sense to send the graphics to the usual windows device. This fact also wreaks a bit of havoc on functions that you might normally use in an interactive session. I think the easiest thing to do is just pick the format you want from the get go. For instance, in your script file: ###################################### # Initialize pdf (or whatever) device pdf("myfile.pdf") # plot your graph plot(xyz, main="imp rate", xlab="Time(GMT)",ylab="imp/minute") # add the grid lines grid() # shut the device down dev.off() ######################################## You would use a similar process for postscript(), png(), etc. What version of R are you using? I do not have the save.plot() function (at least in the packages that load by default). You can learn more by poking around the help pages ?dev.copy ?Devices ?windows HTH, Josh On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Mike Marchywka <marchy...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > I'd been using R in the past and recently installed it on a new windoze 7 > machine. > There have been many issues with compatibility and 32/64 bit apps etc and I > did > find on google on isolated complaint that saveplot failed in scripts a long > time ago. > R seems to work fine except script-based plot saving as pdf has not worked. > I have tried the following, none of which seem to function, > > > xyz <-read.table("time_frac2") > x=plot(xyz,main="imp rate", xlab="Time(GMT)",ylab="imp/minute") > grid() > > dev2bitmap("xxx.pdf",type="pdfwrite") > save.plot(x,file="xxx.pdf",format="pdf") > dev.copy("pdf","auto_pdf.pdf") > dev.off() > savePlot("./auto_hit_rate.pdf",type="pdf") > > q() > > > > Now apparently R does save the plot in a default file Rplots.pdf which is > just fine for my immediate needs but this may have limitations for future > usages. > > Just curious to know what other may have gotten to work or not work. > Thanks. > > - - - - - - > > Mike Marchywka | V.P. Technology > > 415-264-8477 > marchy...@phluant.com > > Online Advertising and Analytics for Mobile > http://www.phluant.com > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.