Hello Jim, This graphics.off() helps me to release the previous pdf file that was had the error message. Thanks again for your help!
Cheers, Rebecca From: jim holtman [mailto:jholt...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:07 AM To: Yuan, Rebecca Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] How to store data frames into pdf file and csv file. If you are getting an error when trying to open the PDF file, then you may of had a error writing out a previous file. I always issue the following command to clear out any pending graphic output: graphics.off() On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Yuan, Rebecca <rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com<mailto:rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com>> wrote: Hello Jim, I tried the following as you mentioned, but I still do not have the error while opening the pdf file. pdf(file = result2, paper = "a4r") mdl.summary.out <-capture.output(mdl.summary) plot.new() text(0,0,paste(mdl.summary.out,collapse='\n'),family='mono') dev.off() I believe this time we try to use pdf to catch the graph via text, are we? Thanks, Rebecca From: jim holtman [mailto:jholt...@gmail.com<mailto:jholt...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:44 AM To: Yuan, Rebecca Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] How to store data frames into pdf file and csv file. Here is one way of doing it: > x est.coef std.err t.stat intercept 0.0011625517 0.0002671437 4.351784 aa -0.0813727439 0.0163727943 -4.969997 dummy1 -0.0002534873 0.0001204000 -2.105376 dummy2 -0.0007784864 0.0001437537 -5.415417 bb -0.0002856727 0.0001090387 -2.619920 cc 0.0003563825 0.0001114803 3.196820 > # capture the output as a string vector > xo <- capture.output(x) > plot.new() # new page > # now add text to plot > text(0, 0, paste(xo, collapse = '\n'), family = 'mono') On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Yuan, Rebecca <rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com<mailto:rebecca.y...@bankofamerica.com>> wrote: Hello, I have a data frame > mdl.summary est.coef std.err t.stat intercept 0.0011625517 0.0002671437 4.351784 aa -0.0813727439 0.0163727943 -4.969997 dummy1 -0.0002534873 0.0001204000 -2.105376 dummy2 -0.0007784864 0.0001437537 -5.415417 bb -0.0002856727 0.0001090387 -2.619920 cc 0.0003563825 0.0001114803 3.196820 and would like to store it to a pdf file, I use pdf(file = "a.pdf", paper = "a4r") mdl.summary dev.off() to store this mdl.summary into a pdf file a.pdf. However, I can see from the terminal that: > pdf(file = result2, paper = "a4r") > mdl.summary est.coef std.err t.stat intercept 0.0011625517 0.0002671437 4.351784 aa -0.0813727439 0.0163727943 -4.969997 dummy1 -0.0002534873 0.0001204000 -2.105376 dummy2 -0.0007784864 0.0001437537 -5.415417 bb -0.0002856727 0.0001090387 -2.619920 cc 0.0003563825 0.0001114803 3.196820 > dev.off() pdf 2 And when I open the a.pdf, the error message says "There was an error opening this document. The file is already open or in use by another application." How could I save this data frame into a pdf file? If I have another data frame, such as > st = data.frame(est.aic, est.aic) > st est.aic est.aic.1 1 -1654.986 -1654.986 How could I save it to a .csv file? Thanks very much! Cheers, Rebecca ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended r...{{dropped:5}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org<mailto: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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ________________________________ This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
