On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Rainer M Krug<r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > My question: how can I get the filename of the pdf from the device > before it is closed?
I've also looked for this and couldn't find a way. I had a similar use, where I wanted to get an R transcript with embedded plots in emacs (see prettyR for another transcript-with-plots option). What I did was use dev2bitmap to write out a PNG file. You could do something similar with dev.copy2pdf to create the pdf after you do the plotting. You could also use dev2bitmap in this manner to drive ghostscript to create pdf's for you (I don't know if it'll compress like you want). Here's what I did: show <- function(file = paste(tempfile(), ".png", sep = "")) { dev2bitmap(file) cat("[[", file, "]]\n", sep = "") # I do some post-processing in emacs to see the embedded graphic } My use case was that plots would be inserted where I used "show" as follows: plot(sin) show() # <---- plot inserted into transcript here plot(cos) show("cos.png") # this time, a named local file instead of a temp file - Tom ______________________________________________ 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.