You need to understand that the R interpreter does not have an
interactive plot device when run as a script from an OS command line.
You need to open an output device, `print` the output of the ggplot
call, and then _after_ closing the device appropriately, open the
output in an appropriate viewer supplied by your unstated OS.
?Devices # brings up a list of possible devices and has a "See Also"
section that says:
===========================
The individual help files for further information on any of the devices
listed here;
on Windows:
windows.options,
on a Unix-alike:
X11.options, quartz.options,
ps.options and pdf.options for how to customize devices.
dev.interactive, dev.cur, dev.print, graphics.off, image, dev2bitmap.
On Unix-alikes only:
capabilities to see if X11, jpeg, png, tiff, quartz and the cairo-based
devices are available.
==============================
So do some further reading to educate yourself.
--
David.
On 1/24/20 8:32 AM, Felix Blind wrote:
Dear R users,
i am a python user trying to get my statistical knowledge up to speed
and R is the language for that.
I would like to run R scripts like that: R -f script.r and still get the
plots that pop up.
When I type the following code in the R REPL I get a nice plot:
library(ggplot2)
data("midwest",
package="ggplot2")
ggplot(midwest, aes(x=area, y=poptotal)) + geom_point()
But when I put the same code in a file script.r and run it with R -f
script.r or if I source it in the REPL with source("script.r") I do not
get any plots shown.
Can you guys tell me what I do wrong. (Apart from either using RStudio
or the REPL exclusively)
Kind regards,
Felix
______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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.
______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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.
