[R] Use of recordPlot

[Beck, Kenneth (STP)]

HUGE help, thanks... 

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Subject: Re: [R] Use of recordPlot

"Beck, Kenneth (STP)" <Kenneth.Beck at bsci.com> wrote:

To be able to page through plots, open the graphics device with
recording turned on before plotting. Then you can use PageUp and
PageDown keys to see the plots in sequence. The plots are stored into
.SavedPlots.  (AFAIK they cannot be accessed with replayPlot. I don't
use that, but I think it is used when a plot has been saved into a
variable with the recordPlot function.)

To enable this sort of session-specific recording, I use the following
code in an script before plotting:

graphics.off()
windows(record = TRUE)
.SavedPlots <- NULL

* The first line closes any open graphics devices.
* The second line opens a new device (here a windows device, but you
could use X11) with plot recording turned on.
* The third line erases any plots already stored in the plot-recording
history. If you don't do this, they will persist across script runs and
even sessions.

You may need to change the code to suit your own needs.

Does that help?

Mike


 
> [...]
> But the end of your response hits on the key issue: when I create 
> several graphs, I would like to be able to use PgUp/PgDn or some other

> keystroke to easily scroll through them all in sequence. One of my 
> scripts now creates 30+ graphs, and to view them I have to mouse to 
> the list of graphics devices and pick off the list. Your last comment 
> indicates you can set it up to quick page through lists of graphs.
> I just tried adding options(graphics.record=TRUE); to my code, and I 
> now find the .SavedPlots variable in the work space, but I was hoping 
> to use
> replayPlot(.SavedPlots) or something like that to be able to scroll 
> through the plots, but it does not seem to work.
> [...]
> Is there a simple command or series of commands to add to the script 
> to enable scrolling through all plots generated by that script? Or 
> maybe something at the beginning with something else at the end??

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Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC
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