Saving plots to a file
In this section, we will take a look at the different methods available of saving your plots. Most of these concepts apply to all plots realized in R although we will also consider the ggsave() function that is specific to the ggplot2() package. In R, there are three ways that you can use to save created plots:
- Saving the plot manually by way of the device window system (could be different between operating systems)
- Saving the plot to a file without rendering the plot
- Saving the plot after rendering the plot
We will take a look at the different methods in the upcoming sections. Just keep in mind that when you save a file as a plot, the file with the specified filename will be saved in your working directory. Be careful since, ...
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