[R] simultaneous plots
Is there a good and concise way of making simultaneous plots that are identical, but directed to different devices? I'm writing an R-script that produces a pdf file. I would really like to check visually whether the pdf file shows what I expect. So I would like the same commands to produce a plot on screen. At the moment I'm using cut-and-paste, which is not ideal because any corrections have to be done twice---very error-prone. Thanks David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/simultaneous-plots-tp20802447p20802447.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
Re: [R] simultaneous plots
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:28:18PM -0800, David Epstein wrote: > Is there a good and concise way of making simultaneous plots that are > identical, but directed to different devices? > > I'm writing an R-script that produces a pdf file. I would really like to > check visually whether the pdf file shows what I expect. So I would like the > same commands to produce a plot on screen. At the moment I'm using > cut-and-paste, which is not ideal because any corrections have to be done > twice---very error-prone. I usually keep my pdf viewer (kpdf) open which automatically refrehes once I re-create the plot. On windows this is a problem, as far as i know. You may get what you are after by storing the plot with recordPlot() and then use replayPlot() to send it to additional devices. cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl für Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universität München Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan 85350 Freising, Germany http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel __ 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.
Re: [R] simultaneous plots
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Philipp Pagel wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:28:18PM -0800, David Epstein wrote: Is there a good and concise way of making simultaneous plots that are identical, but directed to different devices? I'm writing an R-script that produces a pdf file. I would really like to check visually whether the pdf file shows what I expect. So I would like the same commands to produce a plot on screen. At the moment I'm using cut-and-paste, which is not ideal because any corrections have to be done twice---very error-prone. How about dev.copy2pdf ? I usually keep my pdf viewer (kpdf) open which automatically refrehes once I re-create the plot. On windows this is a problem, as far as i know. Depends on the viewer: GSView (and others based on ghostscript) do allow the file to be updated whilst open: Acrobat Reader does not. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ 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.
Re: [R] simultaneous plots
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > How about dev.copy2pdf ? > I put the following into a script: quartz(...) #many graphics commands dev.copy2pdf(pdf,file="ratio1.pdf") and then sourced the script. I got the error message Error in pdfFonts(family) : invalid arguments in 'pdfFonts' (must be font names) I found the various help files on dev.copy and dev.next, etc very hard to understand. And I have no idea how to fix the error. I'm trying to use defaults as much as I can. Could you possibly give a few more lines of code by way of example, Brian? And is a dev.off() command needed after the dev.copy()? Thanks a lot for your helpful replies to so many queries. They are much appreciated. David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/simultaneous-plots-tp20802447p20810628.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
Re: [R] simultaneous plots
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, David Epstein wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: How about dev.copy2pdf ? I put the following into a script: quartz(...) #many graphics commands dev.copy2pdf(pdf,file="ratio1.pdf") Just dev.copy2pdf(file="ratio1.pdf") and then sourced the script. I got the error message Error in pdfFonts(family) : invalid arguments in 'pdfFonts' (must be font names) I found the various help files on dev.copy and dev.next, etc very hard to understand. And I have no idea how to fix the error. I'm trying to use defaults as much as I can. Could you possibly give a few more lines of code by way of example, Brian? And is a dev.off() command needed after the dev.copy()? Thanks a lot for your helpful replies to so many queries. They are much appreciated. David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/simultaneous-plots-tp20802447p20810628.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ 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.
