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save_ggplot

Source: R/save-ggplot.R
save_ggplot.Rd

Save ggplot

Usage

save_ggplot(
  plot,
  filename = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

plot

Plot to save.

filename

File name to create on disk. The device (e.g. jpeg) must be specified as file extension.

path

Path to save plot to (combined with filename).

overwrite

If true, existing file is overwritten.

verbose

If true, messages are printed to the console.

...

Options passed to ggsave.

Details

This function checks if the plot aready exists before saving it. If the file aready exists and overwrite = FALSE (default), the file is not saved. The filename and path is combined using file.path(). See ?ggplot2::ggsave() for more information.

It is possible to set path = "" and use the entire path including the file name as filename argument.

See also

ggsave

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
x <- runif(n = 100)
y <- runif(n = 100)
result_plot <- ggplot2::ggplot() + ggplot2::geom_point(ggplot2::aes(x = x, y = y))
save_ggplot(result_plot, filename = "result_ggpplot.jpeg")
} # }