On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 21/04/2008 4:59 AM, Norbert NEUWIRTH wrote: >> dear useRs and developeRs, >> >> I am afraid it is a very basic question, but I did not find anything alike >> in the literature. >> >> The R standard graphics device shows the opportunity to activate the >> history of plots drawn within the current session. Th user can scroll >> back and see the last graphs (or same graph with some changes in >> parameters). I did not find out yet how to activate the history by >> code. Any ideas? > > When you open the window, use windows(record=TRUE). > > If you want this to happen by default, write your own wrapper for the > windows() graphics device: > > windows <- function(..., record=TRUE) > grDevices::windows(..., record=record)
Or in 2.7.0, windows.options(record=TRUE) sets this for the session. You can set this in a .Rprofile file by (untested, I am not on Windows) setHook(packageEvent("grDevices", "onLoad"), function(...) grDevices::windows.options(record=TRUE) ) > One thing I'd like to do, but didn't have time to implement before > 2.7.0, is to have history set to some finite size, e.g. a default might > be the last 3 or 10 plots. The problem with record=TRUE is that it > keeps a record of all the plots, so memory use just increases and increases. Why not just startup another device with record=FALSE? > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- 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.