Works perfectly (if garishly) for me in R 1.8.1.
Perhaps you could benefit from an R upgrade?
[I presume a line got wrapped, BTW, and if you had made good use of your
space bar it would not have produced invalid code ....]
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Dominique Couturier wrote:
> Dear [R]-list,
>
> I am trying to do a pdf() of the following graphs but don't understand
> why the pdf() function does produce an empty pdf file.
> (I use R1.7.0 on MacOS 10.2.8)
> any idea? Is pdf() incompatible with screen?
> Thanks a lot,
> DLC
>
> ## create dataset
> x=rnorm(1000,10,2)
> y=rpois(1000,5)
>
> ## graphs
> pdf()
> par(col.main=4,omi=c(0,0,1.25,0))
> split.screen(c(1,2))
> screen(1);split.screen(c(2,1))
>
> screen(3) ## gauche en haut
> boxplot(x,col=3,main="my boxplot")
>
> screen(2) ## droite seul
> barplot(table(y),col=4,main="my barplot")
>
> screen(4) ## gauche en bas
> qqnorm(x,main="mon qqnorm");qqline(x,col=5)
> mtext(paste("Graphics are
important","\n","I love
> R"),side=3,col=2,cex=1.5,outer=T)
> dev.off()
>
> ## remove dataset
> rm(x,y)
>
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