No, that's only true for lattice and ggplot2 graphics. The problem here is with this line,
windows(width=5, height=5) which shouldn't be there. HTH, baptiste On 17 May 2010 22:23, Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you do plotting in a loop, then you need to print it to the device. > > print(plot(xj,y)) > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Shirley Bao <baoxi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks! >> I got an error message when opening the pdf file: "There was an error >> opening this document. This file cannot be opened because it has no pages." >> >> Here is what I did in plotting and saving the file: >> >> pdf(file="C:/figure.pdf") >> for (j in 1:numColumns) >> { >> windows(width=5, height=5) >> >> plot(xj,y) >> } >> dev.off() >> >> Any ideas what might cause the problem? Thanks! >> >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Jun Shen <jun.shen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 1.Open pdf device >>> >pdf() >>> 2.Do your plotting as many as you want, you won't see the plots on the >>> screen because they go directly to the pdf() device. >>> 3.Turn off the pdf() >>> >dev.off() >>> Then you can review your plots in the pdf file. For more details see ?pdf >>> >>> Jun >>> >>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Shirley Bao <baoxi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > I have created separate plots in multiple graphics windows using the >>> > windows() function in R. >>> > >>> > How do I save all the plots in one PDF file? >>> > >>> > I tried savePlot("C:/rplot.pdf", type = "pdf"). However, it only saved >>> > the >>> > plot in the current graphics window. >>> > >>> > Thank you! >>> > >>> > [[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. >>> > >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.