[R] Bad EMF export

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon Oct 15 20:39:48 CEST 2007


I think you mean savePlot: I have never heard of saveCopy.

We have seen this before, and the problem was the EMF viewer, not the EMF 
file.  So how is this being viewed?

And as ever

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On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Poirier Clement wrote:

>> How are you doing this? Via code?
>
> I just type saveCopy(file, type="emf", etc....) after the barplot()
> function ; but using windows commands (file, save as) do the same.
>
>> If so, more than likely you forgot to add:
>>
>>   dev.off()
>>
>> after the code that generates the plot.  If you don't close the device,
>> then parts of the plot are not "flushed" from the cache to the disk file
>> and you are left with an incomplete plot in the file.
>
> Ok but where has the line dev.off() to be placed ? If after the
> barplot() function, the plot disappears and there's nothing to save
> anymore ?
>
> Thank you !
>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Marc Schwartz
>
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