Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:36 -0700, Betty Gilbert wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to write a histogram to a pdf >> >> pdf() >> plot<-hist(c, xlim=c( 0.69, 0.84), ylim=c(0,100)) >> >> when I try to open the pdf I can't open it, there is always some >> error . Is there something I should add to make it run under this >> operation system? I had problems upgrading to 2.3 (problem >> downloading packages) so I'm not sure an upgrade will work out with >> me. I just want a publication quality histogram... >> >> thank you, >> betty > > Betty, > > You need to explicitly close the pdf device with: > > dev.off() > > once the plotting related code has completed. See the example in ?pdf > for more information. > > Otherwise, the result of hist() is not flushed to the disk file and the > file then properly closed. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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 maybe you are better off with plot_something dev.print(pdf) with the standard settings of pdf() you get more or less a pdf file maintaining the current aspect ratio of the plot on the screen prior to the dev.print call ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html