On May 14, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Andreas Leha wrote: > Hi all, > > how do I find out about the filename, the currently open (let's say pdf) > device is writing to? > > If I find 'dev.cur()' returning 'pdf 3' when I expect 'nulldevice 1' I > would like to know, which file that pdf device is actually targeting. > > Any help for my poor organization is highly appreciated... >
Have your read the help file for pdf()? The first argument is the default naming mechanism: file = ifelse(onefile, "Rplots.pdf", "Rplot%03d.pdf") So if you call pdf() then it will write to the working directory with a named constructed from those choices. > Regards, > Andreas > > ______________________________________________ > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.