Hi Paul
from a user perspective, this sounds reasonable.
Thank you very much,
Wolfgang
Il giorno Jan 28, 2010, alle ore 2:44 AM, Paul Murrell ha scritto:
Wolfgang Huber wrote:
> Hi,
> I am finding the recently added [1] functionality of embedding raster images
> into plots on R devices very useful! Thanks to Paul Murrell and others for
> providing that. I noted that in
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/grDevices/src/devPS.c
> a macro is defined: #define MAX_RASTERS 64, and consequently, I get
> Error in grid.Call.graphics("L_raster", x$raster, x$x, x$y, x$width,
> x$height, :
> Too many raster images
> even for relatively innocent graphics, such as extensions of [2] (which I
> made with Bioconductor's "splots" package). Besides that, I imagine that
> raster images could be useful as 'glyphs' in various types of plots.
> Besides the not so helpful option of patching that macro in my private copy
> of R, is there an intention to extend this functionality to accommodate for
> larger plots more generally?
A simple solution (given the current implementation) would be to allow the user
to specify the max number of raster images when starting a PDF file, e.g., ...
pdf("plotwithlotsofimages.pdf", maxRaster=1024)
Would that suffice?
Paul
> [1] http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html
> [2] http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~huber/pub/Druggable_ratio_1_before.pdf
> Thank you and best wishes,
> Wolfgang
> --
> Wolfgang Huber
> EMBL
> http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber/contact
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
--
Dr Paul Murrell
Department of Statistics
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
64 9 3737599 x85392
p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/
______________________________________________
R-devel@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
