Dirk Eddelbuettel would tell you to use his 'little r' script instead, though not sure if it has this particular flexibility. You could wrap R CMD BATCH in your own script that moved Rplots.pdf where you wanted it ...
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024, 4:05 PM Josiah Parry <josiah.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Duncan! > > Is there a way to override this using the command line arguments? > > I'd like to be able to have a generalizable way to address this without > having to modify R source code. > > My understanding is that when there is a plot output, R CMD BATCH uses the > PDF device which is a fair default. > > However, there is not any use of `dev.new()` or `pdf()` called anywhere in > the code. > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 3:44 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 2024-07-28 1:48 p.m., Josiah Parry wrote: > > > Hey folks! I am working with R CMD BATCH and providing a providing a > > > logfile output e.g. > > > > > > R CMD BATCH main.R 2024-07-28.log > > > > > > This creates the desired log file with the contents of stdout and > stderr. > > > > > > However, if plots are generated in the process, the plots are stored in > > > Rplots.pdf. > > > > > > Is there a way via command line arguments to change the name of the pdf > > > output. > > > > > > There might be multiple runs of this script and it would be ideal to > > store > > > the plot output independently. > > > > That's the default filename if you open a PDF device. Open it > > explicitly and you can specify any file you like. > > > > That is, > > > > plot(rnorm(100)) > > > > will call dev.new() which in a non-interactive session calls pdf(). If > > you specify > > > > dev.new(file = "something.pdf") > > plot(rnorm(100)) > > > > the "file" argument will be ignored in an interactive session, but will > > be used in a non-interactive one. > > > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
