Thanks Matthias and Gabor.  You're both right.  Matthias, I think that *was*
what I read although now I realize that Gabor's suggestion is more along the
lines of what I want to do.  Though I have found one situation where this
wouldn't really work properly:

par(mfrow=c(2,2))
plot(rnorm(10))
plot(rnorm(10))
plot(rnorm(10))
plot.new()

Now my goal is actually to *only* call this custom function before the
entire device is cleared for a new plot or set of plots.  Since the above
example plots multiple times in the same window, the function would be
called each time, when really I just want it called once, right before the
device window is cleared for another plot.

Is there a way to do this or is this asking too much of R?

Thanks,

Jake

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com>
wrote:

> See:
>
> ?frame
>
> e.g.
>
> setHook("plot.new", function(...) cat("Starting plot\n"))
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Jake Michaelson
> <jake.michaelson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to be able to call a custom function automatically before
> > plot.new() is called (more specifically, before a new plot is created on
> the
> > current graphics device).  Recently I've been poking around in the help
> > files of some of the low(er) level plotting functions, and I seem to
> > remember something saying that you could somehow add a setting to call a
> > function immediately before plot.new() is called (something kind of in
> the
> > spirit of .First).  I've been looking everywhere, and I can't find the
> > documentation I'm thinking of, which makes me wonder if I'm just making
> all
> > this up.
> >
> > Can this be done?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jake
> >
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