r - Save an plot to an image, then draw additional lines on plot and save again. -
i'm trying draw stripchart in r, save png file, draw more stuff on , save again. attempts far ended in error plot.new has not been called yet . corresponding code is # draw without lines png(c(name, '.png'), width=480, height=240); stripchart(data, pch=4, method='jitter'); dev.off(); # draw with lines png(c(name, '_with_trim_points', '.png'), width=480, height=240); abline(v=points, untf = false, col='red'); abline(v=more__points, untf = false, col='green') dev.off(); just calling stripchart(data, pch=4, method='jitter'); second time not option, since jitter different , end different scatterplot. with seed , generated data #generate data data=data.frame(x=rnorm(40),y=rnorm(40)) points=c(-2,0) more__points=c(1,2) # draw without lines set.seed(123) png(paste0(name, '.png'), width=480, height=240); stripchart(data, pch=4, method='jitter'); dev.off(); # draw with lines set