Hi, I am using R 1.7.1 (carbon) for MacOS and I am running it on MacOS X 10.2.6. When I send a graph to the pdf device (or any other devices), I get a zero KB file name "Rplots.pdf". Before sending my graph to the output, I did: > dev.off() > pdf() > boxplot(... my graph commands...) > dev.off() Is this the correct procedure? I did the same procedure on another PC running Linux (R 1.6) and it work well. Please help! Thanks, S?bastien Plante
Can't save a graph to pdf in R for MacOS
4 messages · Sébastien Plante, p.b.pynsent@bham.ac.uk, Brian Ripley
1 day later
I do not have an R solution but use eps2pdf (a Perl script) This can be installed by Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/.
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 03:41 am, S?bastien Plante wrote:
Hi, I am using R 1.7.1 (carbon) for MacOS and I am running it on MacOS X 10.2.6. When I send a graph to the pdf device (or any other devices), I get a zero KB file name "Rplots.pdf". Before sending my graph to the output, I did:
dev.off() pdf() boxplot(... my graph commands...) dev.off()
Is this the correct procedure? I did the same procedure on another PC running Linux (R 1.6) and it work well. Please help! Thanks, S?bastien Plante
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, p.b.pynsent wrote:
I do not have an R solution but use eps2pdf (a Perl script) This can be installed by Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/.
eps2pdf runs GhostScript: so does the R device driver bitmap(). Does the latter work on your system? If so it would save you some steps.
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 03:41 am, Sébastien Plante wrote:
Hi, I am using R 1.7.1 (carbon) for MacOS and I am running it on MacOS X 10.2.6. When I send a graph to the pdf device (or any other devices), I get a zero KB file name "Rplots.pdf". Before sending my graph to the output, I did:
dev.off() pdf() boxplot(... my graph commands...) dev.off()
Is this the correct procedure? I did the same procedure on another PC running Linux (R 1.6) and it work well. Please help! Thanks, Sébastien Plante
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Thank you for your helpful comments. You have indeed saved me time,
when I started to document my reasons for the more tortuous route for
generating pdf files they would seem now to be unnecessary.
Thus I have misled S?bastien Plante as pdf() works fine on my MacOS X
10.2.6 but R 1.7.0.
Originally I had immense problems trying to get transparent
backgrounds. e.g. ps.options(bg = "transparent") did not seem to work.
However this does work consistently now in using both eps and pdf
formats. Although,
postscript("pdftest.eps")
ps.options(bg = "white")
... plotting bits
dev.off()
will produce an eps file with a transparent background the first time
it is run after starting R but white on subsequent runs during the same
R session. Whilst the sequence
ps.options(bg = "white")
pdf("pdftest.pdf")
.... plotting bits
dev.off()
will consistently produce a white background.
I imagine this is of little consequence to most people.
Lastly to answer your question about the R device driver bitmap(), I
tried,
bitmap("pdftest.pdf", type = "pdfwrite")
and got
Error: couldn't find function "bitmap"
so I presume NO.
Paul
>
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 12:32 pm, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, p.b.pynsent wrote:
I do not have an R solution but use eps2pdf (a Perl script) This can be installed by Fink http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/.
eps2pdf runs GhostScript: so does the R device driver bitmap(). Does the latter work on your system? If so it would save you some steps.
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 03:41 am, S?bastien Plante wrote:
Hi, I am using R 1.7.1 (carbon) for MacOS and I am running it on MacOS X 10.2.6. When I send a graph to the pdf device (or any other devices), I get a zero KB file name "Rplots.pdf". Before sending my graph to the output, I did:
dev.off() pdf() boxplot(... my graph commands...) dev.off()
Is this the correct procedure? I did the same procedure on another PC running Linux (R 1.6) and it work well. Please help! Thanks, S?bastien Plante
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