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I cannot generate PDF output with R. Blank pages only. (Linux)

If I want to plot a diagram in pdf, it doesn't work. I only get a blank pdf page. Here's a small example.

> pdf("try.pdf")
> plot(x=c(1,2,4,2,5))
> dev.off()

I also tried the print () command. But no luck:

> print(plot(x=c(1,2,4,2,5)))
NULL            # <- is this an error?

My OS is Ubuntu 12.10 64bit. My R version is 2.15.2.

Other output formats work (e.g. jpeg (), png ()). This is the first time I use PDF output in Ubuntu (I worked on Win with no problem).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Restarting my computer solved the problem. But I can't tell you why it didn't work yesterday.



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Old question, but I had the same problem and was very puzzled.



In my case, it turned out that the / tmp directory was full. After deleting unnecessary tmp files, everything is back to normal. Additional problem I ran into: Calling help for any function (like "help (mean)") only returned blank pages.

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