savePlot | R Documentation |
Saves the current plot on a windows
device to a file.
savePlot(filename = "Rplot", type = c("wmf", "emf", "png", "jpg", "jpeg", "bmp", "tif", "tiff", "ps", "eps", "pdf"), device = dev.cur(), restoreConsole = TRUE)
filename |
The filename under which to save the plot.
Tilde-expansion (see |
type |
The type of plot, Windows metafile, PNG, JPEG, BMP (Windows bitmap format), TIFF, PostScript or PDF. |
device |
A device number of a |
restoreConsole |
See the ‘Details’ section
of |
This is equivalent to selecting the ‘Save as’ menu item on the
‘File’ menu of a windows
device.
If filename
does not include a dot (‘.’), savePlot
will add the file type as an extension; that is, the filename will
be set to paste(filename, type, sep = ".")
. If a dot is present in
filename
, the filename is assumed to include an extension and
is used without change.
Using filename
as "clipboard"
or ""
with
type = "wmf"
will copy to the clipboard.
Types "eps"
and "ps"
are the same thing apart from the
extension for the default filename
. Similarly
"wmf"
/"emf"
, "jpeg"
/"jpg"
and
"tiff"
/"tif"
.
JPEG quality is 75%, and TIFF is saved without compression.
None, but a plot file will be created.
There is a similar function of the same name but fewer types for
cairo-based X11
devices on Unix-alikes, and without the
restoreConsole
argument.
recordPlot()
which is device independent. Further,
png
, dev.print
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