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Mary A. Marion
Mary A. Marion

Reputation: 800

How to save a graphic file in R Studio to an external file with a unique name

How can I get Rstudio to save each plot in a separate file on disk when requesting multiple plots in an R script? this is easily done in R using savePlot command. It would be nice to use something that worked in both packages.

install.packages("RXKCD")
require(RXKCD)
getXKCD(which = "552")
savePlot("fun.emf","emf")
win.metafile("fun.wmf") 
png("fun.png")

LOG:

> savePlot("fun.emf","emf") #this works in R but not in RStudio
Error in savePlot("fun.emf", "emf") : 
  can only copy from 'windows' devices
> win.metafile("fun.wmf")  #File of size 0 is created
> png("fun.png")           #File of size 0 is created

Thank you. Mary A. Marion

Upvotes: 1

Views: 564

Answers (1)

mkearney
mkearney

Reputation: 1335

What I normally do (in Rstudio and in Sublime):

png("omg.png", 600, 600)
#pdf("omg.pdf", 7, 7)
plot(rnorm(10), rnorm(10))
dev.off()

For pdfs, I'd comment out the png function and I comment the pdf one.

Upvotes: 1

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