Thanks Duncan and Ted, That will be tremendously helpful to me. In combination with the width/height and xpos/ypos arguments, I think I'll be able to create this matrix of devices I am looking for.
Thanks again Sebastien On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 25/07/2010 10:03 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: > >> On 25-Jul-10 13:22:11, Sébastien Bihorel wrote: >> >>> Dear R-users, >>> >>> Does anybody know a good way to create and use several graphical >>> devices at the same time in interactive mode? Ideally, I'd like >>> to open 2 to 3 devices and assign names to them. This way, I could >>> make any addition/modification/update to a particular device using >>> its name. >>> >>> I did not see anything like a name argument in ?X11. Is there an >>> alternative? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your feeback. >>> Sebastien >>> >> >> You can certainly do this "by hand". The basic R terminal is device >> number 1. If you do X11() (or invoke it implicitly by using a 'plot' >> command) this will be device number 2. With just this one open, any >> 'plot' (or plot-related) commands will re-use it. >> >> However, having opened device #2, you can do X11() again and get a >> second graphics device which will be number 3. And so on, for as many >> additional devices as you like. >> >> By default, the device that the results of any 'plot' command are >> sent to will be the most recently opened one. However, you can select >> the device using the command dev.set(n) where n ( = 2,3,... ) is the >> device you want to use. The device which is "active" will be shown >> by the word "(ACTIVE)" attached to its display. All other devices >> will show "(inactive)". >> >> You could "name" your devices by indexing a vector (2:n) by names. >> >> Try the following, Starting with no graphics devices open: >> >> X11() # dev 2 >> X11() # dev 3 >> X11() # dev 4 ## This one is currently active >> > > That's the right idea, but I wouldn't count on the numbers coming out 2, 3, > 4: what if another device was already opened? Better to use dev.cur() just > after you open a new device to find out what its number was. So do > something like > > X11() > plotA <- dev.cur() > > X11() > plotB <- dev.cur() > > X11() > plotC <- dev.cur() > > > dev.set(plotA) # first one is active > > etc. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ## Arange these so that you can see all their top bars >> devN <- c(plotA=2,plotB=3,plotC=4) >> >> dev.set(devN["plotA"]) # dev 2 is active >> >> dev.set(devN["plotC"]) # dev 4 is active >> >> dev.set(devN["plotB"]) # dev 3 is active >> >> dev.set(devN["plotA"]) # dev 2 is active >> >> dev.set(devN["plotC"]) # dev 4 is active >> >> Hoping this helps, >> Ted. >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> >> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 >> Date: 25-Jul-10 Time: 15:03:14 >> ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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