R help - Feb 2010 - Flattening Graphics

Hello,

This question is a nightmare to search for, as I get so many irrelevant results.
What I'm interested in doing if I have many pages of plots and I want to
keep them together in the same document, say a PDF, is there a way to flatten
all the dot plots and graphics, so that they don't take a long time to load
on a slow computer in Adobe Reader, without using external programs outside of R
?

Thanks,
       Dario.

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Dario Strbenac
Research Assistant
Cancer Epigenetics
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Australia

Hi,

You could try the grid.grab() function in R devel if your graphics use
the Grid package. It will read the graphical output as a bitmap which
you can then export in a multipage pdf. It may not be really
flattening per se but that would definitely help with the viewing
speed.


HTH,

baptiste

On 11 February 2010 05:42, Dario Strbenac <D.Strbenac at garvan.org.au>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This question is a nightmare to search for, as I get so many irrelevant
results. What I'm interested in doing if I have many pages of plots and I
want to keep them together in the same document, say a PDF, is there a way to
flatten all the dot plots and graphics, so that they don't take a long time
to load on a slow computer in Adobe Reader, without using external programs
outside of R ?
>
> Thanks,
> ? ? ? Dario.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Dario Strbenac
> Research Assistant
> Cancer Epigenetics
> Garvan Institute of Medical Research
> Darlinghurst NSW 2010
> Australia
>
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