Graphics Device

A Special Graphics Device in R: the Null Device

December 22, 2010 | Yihui Xie

It is well-known that R has several graphics devices — either the screen devices (X11(), windows(), …) or the off-screen devices (pdf(), png(), …). We can query the default graphics device in options(): getOption('device') In a non-interactive session, the default device is pdf(). This is why Sweave has to create a file ... [Read more...]

A Slider to Control Two Plotting Windows

September 28, 2010 | Yihui Xie

One of my readers asked two weeks ago how to control two graphics windows with the slider in gWidgets. Here is a simple example: if (!require("gWidgetsRGtk2")) install.packages("gWidgetsRGtk2") library(gWidgetsRGtk2) options(guiToolkit = "RGtk2") graphics.off() x11() x11() dev.set() gslider(from = 1, to = 100, value = 10,     container = gwindow("Two Plotting Windows"), ... [Read more...]

Identify Data Points in Off-Screen R Graphics Devices

March 16, 2009 | Yihui Xie

Today Ruya Gokhan Kocer asked me how to use the R function identify() in off-screen graphics devices. Actually it’s pretty easy as long as we obtain the list returned by identify(pos = TRUE). For example, # open a windows device x11() x = rnorm(20) y = rnorm(20) plot(x, y) # identify 5 points ... [Read more...]

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