On Jul 1, 2013, at 14:35 , Adrian Trapletti wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am comparing "R CMD BATCH script.R" with running the following code snippet
> within R:
>
> pdf("Rplots.pdf")
> source("script.R")
> dev.off()
> q(save="no")
>
> Among other things, one difference is that the former produces no Rplots.pdf
> while the latter produces an empty Rplots.pdf, if script.R does not contain
> "plotting" commands (R version 3.0.1, i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)). What is
> the difference between the two with respect to pdf plotting?
Same as on the command line: If you type quartz() (or whatever is the default
device for you), you get an empty window if no plotting follows. If you type
plot(0:9), the quartz() device is opened for you and plotted into.
You could try
options(device=pdf)
source("script.R")
q(save="no")
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