save_ggplot function

save_ggplot

Allows to save 'ggplot2' objects in .tiff format based on an specific resolution.

save_ggplot(
  plot,
  folder,
  name = "plot",
  wide = TRUE,
  quality = "4K",
  dpi = 80,
  format = "tiff",
  custom = NULL
)

Arguments

• plot: 'ggplot2' object. Object to plot and save.
• folder: Character. Folder path as character type.
• name: Character. File name.
• wide: Logical. If TRUE, widescreen format (16:9) is used, in other case (4:3) format.
• quality: Character. One of: "HD", "FHD", "2K", "4K", "8K"
• dpi: Numeric. DPI value for the image.
• format: Device to use. Can either be a device function (e.g. png), or one of "eps", "ps", "tex" (pictex), "pdf", "jpeg", "tiff", "png", "bmp", "svg" or "wmf" (windows only).
• custom: Numeric vector. Custom size of the image. Numeric vector of width and height.

Returns

Generate a plot image in the specific folder or working directory.

Examples

if(requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)){
library(ggplot2)
data(iris)
g <- ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Width, Sepal.Length, color = Species))
g <- g + geom_point(size = 4)
file_path <- tempfile(fileext = ".png")
ggsave(file_path, plot = g)
unlink(file_path) # Eliminar el archivo temporal
}

Author(s)

Pedro Salguero Garcia. Maintainer: pedsalga@upv.edu.es