R help - Sep 2009 - Truncated plot in the output file

Dear all,

I made a large plot and wanted to save it as a tif file.

I first opened and specified the size of the window.

windows(12,17,rescale="fixed")

Then I plot a heatmap using heatmap()

when I saved the plot by using "Save as" in the file menu or
savePlot("heatmap", type="tif"), the plot in the output tif
file is
truncated. Only the upper part of the plot is shown.

I did get a complete plot if I used

savePlot("heatmap.tif")

but the tif file then cannot be opened in Photoshop, saying it is not the
right kind of document.

Any ideas how I can solve the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Jimmy
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On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:25 AM, J Chen wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I made a large plot and wanted to save it as a tif file.
>
> I first opened and specified the size of the window.
>
> windows(12,17,rescale="fixed")
>
> Then I plot a heatmap using heatmap()
>
> when I saved the plot by using "Save as" in the file menu or
> savePlot("heatmap", type="tif"), the plot in the output
tif file is
> truncated. Only the upper part of the plot is shown.
>
> I did get a complete plot if I used
>
> savePlot("heatmap.tif")
>
> but the tif file then cannot be opened in Photoshop, saying it is  
> not the
> right kind of document.
>
> Any ideas how I can solve the problem?

?tiff
?capabilities

Use the tiff device and specify the size you want. I'm assuming that  
those units were in inches for your situation.

Modified from the help page:

 > tiff(file="myplot.tif", bg="transparent", width=12,
height=17,
units="in", res=150)
 > plot(1:10); rect(1, 5, 3, 7, col="white")
 > dev.off()

(On my machine capabilities() tells me that I don't have a tiff device  
but experimentations suggests that information may not be entirely  
correct.)

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