As others have said, you pretty much need to do the plot 2 times, but
if it takes more that one command to create the plot you can use the
dev.copy function to copy what you have just plotted into another
graphics device rather than reissuing all the commands again.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Uwe Ligges
<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> On 24.03.2012 13:11, Igor Sosa Mayor wrote:
>>
>> apart from the other answers, be aware that you have to 'print' the
>> graph with
>>
>> pl<-plot(x)
>> print(pl)
>
>
>
> Which is true for lattice function but not for a base graphics plot().
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>> in case you're using lattice or ggplot2 plots.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 02:40:04PM -0700, casperyc wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I know how to use pdf() and dev.off() to produce and save a graph.
>>>
>>> However, when I put them in a function say
>>>
>>> myplot(x=1:20){
>>> pdf("xplot.pdf")
>>> plot(x)
>>> dev.off()
>>> }
>>>
>>> the function work. But is there a way show the graph in R as well as
>>> saving
>>> it to the workspace?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> casper
>>>
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