[R] How to know what device I am using

[Charles C. Berry]

See

 	?dev.cur
and

 	?options

 	esp. the para on 'device' under 'Options set in package grDevices'

CCB

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Halldór Björnsson wrote:

> Some years ago I wrote a plotting routine that was run
> on both Linux & Windows computers.
>
> There were some differences in the way the plot looked
> from the windows device and the X11 device.
>
> To ensure consistency I used
> getOption("device"))
> and made some changes to the plotting if the windows device was being used.
>
> Using this routine again, years later, I now notice that
> getOption("device") returns a function listing, but no longer a string
> with the name of the device.
>
> What is the best way to query which device is the default?
>
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