Dear Laura, This works for me. Is dot on your system path?
Best, John ----------------------------------------------- John Fox Senator McMaster Professor of Social Statistics Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Laura Thomas > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:17 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Path Diagram > > Hi All, > > Apologies if this has been answered somewhere else, but I have been > searching for an answer all day and not been able to find one. > > I am trying to plot a path diagram for a CFA I have run, I have > installed > Rgraphviz and run the following: > > pathDiagram(cfa, min.rank='item1, item2, item3, item4, item5, item6, > item7, item8, item9, item10, item11, item12', max.rank='SMP, AAAS', > file='documents') > > I get the following message and output: > > Running dot -Tpdf -o documents.pdf documents.dot > > digraph "cfa" { > rankdir=LR; > size="8,8"; > node [fontname="Helvetica" fontsize=14 shape=box]; > edge [fontname="Helvetica" fontsize=10]; > center=1; > {rank=min "item1" "item2" "item3" "item4" "item5" "item6" "item7" > "item8" "item9" "item10" "item11" "item12"} > {rank=max "SMP" "AAAS"} > "SMP" [shape=ellipse] > "AAAS" [shape=ellipse] > "SMP" -> "item1" [label="smp0"]; > "SMP" -> "item3" [label="smp1"]; > "SMP" -> "item4" [label="smp2"]; > "SMP" -> "item6" [label="smp3"]; > "SMP" -> "item8" [label="smp4"]; > "SMP" -> "item10" [label="smp5"]; > "SMP" -> "item11" [label="smp6"]; > "AAAS" -> "item2" [label="aaas0"]; > "AAAS" -> "item5" [label="aaas1"]; > "AAAS" -> "item7" [label="aaas2"]; > "AAAS" -> "item9" [label="aaas3"]; > "AAAS" -> "item12" [label="aaas4"]; > } > > How do I get to see the graph? > > Many thanks, > > Laura > > Laura Thomas > PhD Student- Sport and Exercise Psychology > Department of Sport and Exercise > Penglais Campus > Aberystywth University > Aberystwyth > > 01970621947 > l...@aber.ac.uk > www.aber.ac.uk/en/sport-exercise/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
