R help - Feb 2002 - How to save multiple graph pages into one postscript file

Dear R users,

After creating multiple plots in the graph window (saved in the history), I
would like to create a postscript or PDF file that contains all the plots
in the history. However, the Save As function only allows saving the
current plot that is shown in the graph window (although I could view the
other plots using page-up and page-down). Is what I was trying to do (i.e.
create multi-page ps or pdf file) a possibility with R?

Thank you very much in advance!

Regards,
Lixin Zeng

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 zeng_li at willis.com wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> After creating multiple plots in the graph window (saved in the history), I
> would like to create a postscript or PDF file that contains all the plots
> in the history. However, the Save As function only allows saving the
> current plot that is shown in the graph window (although I could view the
> other plots using page-up and page-down). Is what I was trying to do (i.e.
> create multi-page ps or pdf file) a possibility with R?
So this is using a windows() device under Windows?  No other R graphics
device has a plot history.  The history is only supported to the extent of
replaying on the same device in the same session.

Why not just re-run the R commands which created the plots on apostscript(0
or pdf() device?


General comment: this message did not mention the OS, and would make no
sense to people who have not used the history mechanism on a windows()
device.  Could posters please give sufficient context.

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Zeng_li at willis.com Writes:
>After creating multiple plots in the graph window (saved in the history), I
>would like to create a postscript or PDF file that contains all the plots
>in the history. However, the Save As function only allows saving the
>current plot that is shown in the graph window (although I could view the
>other plots using page-up and page-down). Is what I was trying to do (i.e.
>create multi-page ps or pdf file) a possibility with R?
Use the same commands you use to create the graphs but instead of
sending them to a display device (by explicitly calling x11() or
windows() to open a display device or just letting R open one up for
you) send then to a postscript device with postscript().

See ?devices and ?postscript for details.

Mark


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