[R] How do I change which R Graphics Device is active?

[hadley wickham]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Barry
Rowlingson<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You could wrap it in a function of your own making, right?
>>
>> AddNewDev = function() {dev.new();AddNewDev=dev.cur()}
>>
>> histPlot=AddNewDev()
>>
>> Seems to work.
>
>  You leaRn fast :) Probably better style is:
>
>  newDev = function(){dev.new();return(dev.cur())}
>
>  - which returns the value explicitly with return().

R isn't C! ;)  I'd claim idiomatic R only uses return for special
cases (i.e. when you can terminate the function early)

Hadley

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