Creating gif files using R
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:19:44 -0400
From: Dennis Wolf <qed@ornl.gov>
To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Creating gif files using R
Greetings,
I am a new user of R but a long time fan of S (Splus) and have
installed R version 0.65.1 on a
Windows NT machine. I would like to save plots as gif files and have
been using savePlot()
with some success. I found that savePlot would not work without
modification, namely
decrementing the device by 1 before calling the internal routine that
does the conversion.
I will look into this. It did work as advertised when it was released, but something may have changed en route to rw0651 (for example a correction may have got lost).
Once that change was made it worked as advertised. I am wondering now whether I could generate the gif files in a batch job.
You can call the windows() device and then savePlot() from a batch job.
I am wanting to do a web-based analysis that includes a call to R which would return a gif file for display in a browser. Is this possible directly with R?
From NEWS for 0.65.1:
o Experimental function dev2bitmap() to copy to a bitmap graphics format. It won't do gif unless your version of ghostscript will, but it will do png and jpeg.
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