Section 36 Save the graphics

36.1 R Graphics Devices

Device	Explanation
pdf	Writes PDF graphics commands to a file
postscript	Writes PostScript graphics commands to a file
bitmap	Prepares bitmap pseudo-device via Ghostscript (if available).
svg	SVG device based on cairo graphics.
png	PNG bitmap device
jpeg	JPEG bitmap device
bmp	BMP bitmap device
tiff	TIFF bitmap device

36.2 Save as a png file

data(mtcars)

?png

png(file='test.png')

pairs(mtcars[,c(1:4)],
         main='Scatter Plot',
         cex = 1.5, pch = 24, bg = "light blue")

dev.off()

36.3 Save as a pdf file

?pdf

pdf(file='test.pdf')

pairs(mtcars[,c(1:4)],
         main='Scatter Plot',
         cex = 1.5, pch = 24, bg = "light blue")

pairs(iris, col = 'blue')

dev.off()