[R] R graphs differ from exported one

[Joshua Wiley]

Hmm, did you shut the device down afterward (i.e., call dev.off() )?
I do not have any logic why that would induce the behavior you say you
are getting, but this works just fine for me:

postscript("tmp.eps", onefile = TRUE)
qqnorm(rnorm(20))
dev.off()

and creates the attached file (possibly not attached for the list, but
you should get it).

Josh

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Massimiliano <massi.lyons at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody! This is my first mail so I'll write a couple of lines
> of self-introduction.
> My name is Massimiliano, I'm from Italy and I'm studying Mathematical
> Engineering.
> I started using R in my Statistics course and have to use it to make a
> project which I'll discuss at the end of the course.
>
> The problem I'd like to ask you about follows.
> Suppose I have imported a datafile with the classic command
>
> dat <- read.table('file', header=T)
>
> and wanted to see if my data are Normal-like or not.
> I can accomplish this with the command
>
> qqnorm (col)
>
> where 'col' is the column in the datafile 'file'.
> Now, the graph that appears is very nice: indeed it has a title, two
> axes with their labels and all the rest;
> but when I give commands
>
> postscript(file="plot.eps", onefile=FALSE)
> qqnorm (col)
>
> to save the graph to a file "plot.eps" to include it in a TeX, the file
> created has nothing to do with the former one: it only has "the graph
> part", i.e. no title, no labels, no axes....
>
> I searched in the documentation but found nothing; the same on the
> forum.
> What should I do?
> I'm running R 2.12.1 on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LL 64-bit
>
> Thanks for help to everybody :)
> Massimiliano
>
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-- 
Joshua Wiley
Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.joshuawiley.com/
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