Any easy way to export an image?

[nateGeorge]

I was trying to save an image as so in Rstudio:

jpeg(file = '/home/nate/github/neural_net_prototyping/images/simple.model.jpg')
plot_model(simple.model)
dev.off()

But it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas on how to save a model programmatically?

[andrie]

Good question.

The resulting object is an htmlWidget and can be programmatically accessed using the webshot package. In the Readme.rmd of this package I have examples of this, using this code:

htm_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".html")
model %>% plot_model() %>% 
  htmlwidgets::saveWidget(htm_file)
webshot::webshot(htm_file, file = tempfile(fileext = ".png"))

We should really document this and perhaps create a simple wrapper function to export to png format.

[nateGeorge]

Ah, of course. Maybe mentioning this in the README.md would be good? Not providing the full code necessary, just saying it's in the Readme.rmd