I guess I don't understand what your're trying to do. gzip-ing a file from within R is easy enough:
pdf(file="CompressMe.pdf") plot(rnorm(100)) dev.off() system("gzip CompressMe.pdf") I think you want something more complicated, but I'm not sure what. -Ista On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Daniele Amberti <daniele.ambe...@ors.it> wrote: > By now It seems nobody have idea. > > zz <- gzfile("C:/gzpdftest.gz", "wb") > pdf(file = zz) > plot(USArrests) > dev.off() > close(zz) > > produce a file named "3" without any extension in my working directory. > > Also I don't have any news on how to gzip the pdf afterward (without using an > external executable). > > Daniele > > > From: Rainer M Krug [mailto:r.m.k...@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 September 2009 10:26 > To: Daniele Amberti > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device - [ ] Message is from an > unknown sender > > > 2009/9/30 Daniele Amberti > <daniele.ambe...@ors.it<mailto:daniele.ambe...@ors.it>> > I have not found an easy way to compress a file on filesystem. > Especially I'd like to compress a pdf from pdf() function/device. Is it > possible to compress It on the flight? > I'd like to do something like: > pdf(gzipconnection()) > dev.off() > > I guess this boils down to a question I asked some time ago concerning > getting the filename of a pdf() device, as I wanted to create a compressed > pdf from the uncompressed pdf created by R (not "zipping" the pdf). > It does not seem to be possible, at least I did not get any response which I > could use to implement my idea (create my dev.off(), which calls dev.off() > and afterwards compresses the pdf by using the file name). > > If you find a solution, please let me know. > > Cheers, > > Rainer > If It is not possible, how can I create a gzip with the pdf? > > Thanks > Daniele A. > > > > ________________________________ > > > > ________________________________ > ORS Srl > > Via Agostino Morando 1/3 12060 Roddi (Cn) - Italy > Tel. +39 0173 620211 > Fax. +39 0173 620299 / +39 0173 433111 > Web Site www.ors.it > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Qualsiasi utilizzo non autorizzato del presente messaggio e dei suoi allegati > ? vietato e potrebbe costituire reato. > Se lei avesse ricevuto erroneamente questo messaggio, Le saremmo grati se > provvedesse alla distruzione dello stesso > e degli eventuali allegati. > Opinioni, conclusioni o altre informazioni riportate nella e-mail, che non > siano relative alle attivit? e/o > alla missione aziendale di O.R.S. Srl si intendono non attribuibili alla > societ? stessa, n? la impegnano in alcun modo. > > [[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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.