This is solved for me. Upgrading R to 2.7.1 sorted out the issue somehow. Maybe there is a problem with Ubuntu 8.04 and R 2.6.2. Or maybe some other package was installed that fixed it. Whatever the case. Thanks!
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, stephen sefick wrote: > >> pdf( "yourfile.pdf", height=22, width=17) >> #yourcode >> dev.off() >> >> then use the gimp (free) to transform it to .png or whatever else (pdf >> makes >> good graph) > > So do R's graphics devices .... > > If you do want to convert PDF to PNG there are much better ways than the > GIMP based on ghostscript, including R's bitmap() device. > >> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Daniel Folkinshteyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> not sure why it doesn't work, but try the following: >>> first, plot to a regular window, then run: >>>> dev.copy(device=png, file="yourfilename.png") >>>> dev.off() >>> >>> see if that produces a file you want. >>> >>> another note: what do you mean you can't just "copy and paste the graph" >>> in >>> ubuntu? doesn't pressing print-screen make a screenshot? doesn't >>> pressing >>> alt-printscreen make a screenshot of the current active window? (or even >>> from the main menu, "applications-> accessories -> take screenshot" >>> should >>> work). >>> >>> on 06/26/2008 08:43 PM Sam Albers said the following: >>> >>> I have trying to figure this out all day so hopefully the answer isn't >>> too >>>> obvious. I am able to view a graph in the viewer window. However, I >>>> need >>>> to >>>> export graph outside of the viewer window. Here is the script I am >>>> using: >>>> >>>> png("Compare.png") >>>>> plot(compare$DepthSLI, compare$DischargeSLI, col="blue", xlab = >>>>> "Average >>>>> >>>> Water Depth (cm)", ylab = "Discharge (m^3/s)", xlim=c(5,40), >>>> ylim=c(0.03,0.1), main="Discharge in Flume 1") >>>> >>>>> dev.off() >>>>> >>>> null device >>>> 1 >>>> >>>> When I do this R simply produces an empty file that produces an error >>>> message when I try to open it. I have tried this same script with every >>>> file >>>> format available under help(device) all with the same result. I am >>>> running >>>> Ubuntu 8.04 so I unable to simply copy and paste the graph as in >>>> windows. >>>> I >>>> am fairly sure I have all the right packages installed. I am running R >>>> 2.6.2-2. Any suggestions? >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so >> little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make >> us >> feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying >> little >> problems of being mammals. >> >> -K. Mullis >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-exporting-graphs-tp18146195p18160353.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.