R help - May 2012 - R+Stata batch mode

Dear R help,

I am using Stata, and I use a Stata ado file (Rsource) to run R in batch
mode within Stata

Everything works fine .... except for the fact that I cannot export the
graphics that I obtain with my computations written in my R source file
I believe this is related to the global Rterm_options
`"--vanilla"' that I
need to precise to Rsource (otherwise it does not work) ...
What kind of options should I precise instead in order to be able to use
the R line :

png('mygraph.png')
dev.off()

? At the moment the file obtained (mygraph.png) is void ... but strangely
enough the pictures are exported in a pdf file... which is not what I want
anyway

Any help ?

Many thanks

Best Regards

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On May 25, 2012, at 14:46 , Francesco wrote:
> Dear R help,
> 
> I am using Stata, and I use a Stata ado file (Rsource) to run R in batch
> mode within Stata
> 
> Everything works fine .... except for the fact that I cannot export the
> graphics that I obtain with my computations written in my R source file
> I believe this is related to the global Rterm_options
`"--vanilla"' that I
> need to precise to Rsource (otherwise it does not work) ...
> What kind of options should I precise instead in order to be able to use
> the R line :
> 
> png('mygraph.png')
> dev.off()
> 
> ? At the moment the file obtained (mygraph.png) is void ... but strangely
> enough the pictures are exported in a pdf file... which is not what I want
> anyway
> 
> Any help ?
Apologies if I'm being silly, but:

You do know that the graphics commands need to go _between_ png() and dev.off()?

Otherwise, perhaps the png device didn't start. There should be an error
message in the output file in that case.

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