....many Thanks!
For another lazzy typist's - this works fine.
for (i in 1:length(tList)) {
post(tList[[i]],paste("Tree", i, "ps", sep="."),
title="title",
digits=getOption("digits") - 0,use.n=TRUE)
graphics.off()
}
christian
> Yes, you need dev.off() inside the loop and to name the files differently.
>
> It's title. to avoid complaints about masking functions of the same
name,
> in long-ago versions of S3 and R.
>
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote:
>
> > Christian -
> >
> > I am looking at the call to post() in the code fragment below,
> > and I wonder whether all of the arguments that are supplied will
> > be matched correctly. I am also reading
help("post.rpart").
> >
> > The first argument is the tree, and that should be matched okay.
> > The second argument in the help is named "title.". It's
unusual
> > to include a period explicitly at the end of an argument name,
> > and I wonder whether maybe it's needed in order to distinguish
> > this use of "title" from that in some other function ?
> >
> > However, the second example at the bottom of the help page seems
> > to succeed in spite of using "title" without the dot, and it
passes
> > the arguments in the same order as shown in your example ...
> >
> > Hmmmm. There are three experiments I would try, if this were
> > my problem - and NO guarantees that any of them will solve it:
> >
> > (1) Pass arguments in exactly the order they appear in the
> > post.rpart() function definition, and use the dot in
"title.".
> > The order is: tree, title., filename, digits, pretty, use.n, ... .
> > (This is from R 1.6.2. Type post.rpart (no parentheses) at
> > the command line prompt to see the function definition in the
> > version you are using.
> >
> > (2) Try typing graphics.off() at the command line prompt
> > after the loop has finished. This is needed in order to get
> > the last plot into the output file if you have used the
> > function postscript() from base R.
> >
> > (3) Observe that all 18 filenames generated by paste() will
> > be the same. I think that
paste("Tree","i",sep=".ps") will
> > produce "Tree.psi" every time. The i is not interpreted
> > because it is in quotes. So each new plot overwrites the
> > previous one. An alternative might be:
> > paste("Tree", i, "ps", sep=".") giving
eg "Tree.18.ps".
> >
> > HTH - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor -
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Christian Schulz wrote:
> >
> > > i want the post plot's from a rpart list object with
> > > 18 tree's , getting no error - but getting no files,too?
> > > Perhaps i should using assign!?
> > >
> > > for (i in 1:length(treeList)) {
> > >
post(treeList[[i]],filename=paste("Tree","i",sep=".ps"),
title="Arbeitszufriedenheit",> > > digits=getOption("digits") - 0,use.n=TRUE)
> > > }
> > >
> > > many thanks for help,
> > > christian
> >
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