For pete's sake, I knew that. I apologize for wasting everyone's time. I tell
ya, this has been an off week for me.
Thank you for your kind responses.
On Aug 4, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Note that ***histogram()*** (as opposed to "hist()") is a function from the
> "lattice" package. So at some stage you must have issued the command
> "require(lattice)" or equivalently "library(lattice)". (So your ``exact
> code''
> is a little misleading.)
>
> You are thus getting bitten by the fact that the output of lattice
> plot functions must be explicitly *printed* when called from within
> a function such as source(). See fortune("line 800"). They needn't
> be explicitly printed when called from the command line, which is
> why you are getting the figure you expect by typing the code at the
> R prompt.
>
> So put
>
> print(histogram(~Total.Change,data=x,xlab="Percent Change"))
>
> in the file that you are source()-ing and all will be in harmony in the
> universe.
>
> Nothing really to do either with source() or with OS X Lion.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
> P. S. Apropos of nothing (but speaking of lions) everyone should read
> ``The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz'' by Russell Hoban. :-)
>
> R. T.
>
> On 05/08/11 09:24, Mark Ebbert wrote:
>> Dear R Gurus,
>>
>> I'm seeing some strange behavior that I can't explain. I'm generating a
>> figure for a paper and I like to save the script (no matter how simple) for
>> future reference. My practice is to write the script and run it using the
>> 'source()' function. What's weird is that the resultant figure is not
>> readable by OS X 10.7.0 (Lion). While trying to figure out what I did wrong,
>> I discovered that typing the exact same code into the R prompt (running in
>> Terminal) will produce the figure as I would expect it. The only idea I have
>> is that something has changed in Lion that doesn't allow 'source()' to
>> interpret it properly.
>>
>> Any ideas? Here is the exact code I'm using:
>> 1 x<-read.delim("path/data.txt")
>> 2
>> 3 pdf("path/PaperFig-hist_of_perc_change-individ_samps-by_subtype.pdf")
>> 4 histogram(~Total.Change,data=x,xlab="Percent Change")
>> 5 dev.off()
>>
>> I appreciate any help. I'm especially curious if there's a Lion user who
>> could give this a try.
>>
>> OS X 10.7.0 (Lion)
>> R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
>> Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
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