"print" versus "plot" in r

Question

I want to save my histogram as below. When I run the following, the plot shows up in Rstudio:

hist_L4 <- hist(L_4,breaks=10,main='histo')   
print(hist_L4)

When I try to save it like so, it just saves blank white images, which is not the same as the plots it printed in Rstudio.

hist_L4 <- hist(L_4,breaks=10,main='histo')    

png(file=paste0('path/name_of_png' , '.png' ))
print(hist_L4)
dev.off()

Why is it that I am getting blank white plots? Thanks.

Answer 1

#Maybe simply this way?:
hist_L4 <- hist(L_4,breaks=10,main='histo')   
hist_L4

png(file=paste0('path/name_of_png' , '.png' ))
hist_L4
dev.off()