I'll surely look into it.
Stephen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM, hippie dream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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?
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> 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.
> >>
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