[R] plots from batchfile on windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 6/3/05, Hans-Peter <gchappi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On windows I'd like to run a batchfile that leaves me a plot. As a
> test I have the scriptfile "test.r" which only contains:
> 
>    x <- 1:10;
>    y <- sample( 10 )
>    plot( x, y )
> 
> Now I tried the following (but nothing worked):
> 
> a) "R --vanilla < test.r" in the cmd window, => that doesn't give me a plot
> b) the same, but I added "bitmap(file="outplot.png")" in the
> scriptfile => Here I get an error that gswin32c.exe was not found.
> (Maybe I need to install ghostscript???)
> c) some attempts with Rgui.exe => I didn't arrive to pass a command argument.
> 
> It would be nice, to get some hints, how this could be done. I did
> search the newsgroup archive, but unfortunately didn't find something.
> 

This was discussed previously this week.  Look right at the end of:

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-June/071147.html