On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, bbolker wrote: > Michael Friendly wrote: >> >> In a long session, producing multiple graphs, I sometimes repeatedly >> change par() settings, particularly with multi-row/col displays. >> If I'm using a script, I'll do >> >> op <- par(newsettings) >> ... plots ... >> par(op) >> >> but sometimes I do things on the fly and can't easily back out >> to the default settings. I'm looking for someway to do the >> equivalent of >> >> par(reset=TRUE) >> >> I suppose I could do something like create Rprofile.site containing >> >> .First <- function() par.default <- par() >> >> and then par(par.default), but maybe there's an easier way I haven't >> noticed. [On Windows, I don't use Rprofile.site because it's one more >> thing to update with each new version.] >> >> -Michael >> > > Your solution seems pretty good to me (although I often use Deepayan's > dev.off(); windows() hack myself), but I would amend it to > par.default <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)
The default parameters depend on the device and indeed on the size of the device. Deepayan's suggestion (as I recall he did not suggest opening the device but letting R do it) is widely used and seems a lot better to me, not least because setting par() in .First will open a device in every session, needed or not, interactive or not. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
