Duncan showed the way to do it in 1 plotting device, but it may be easier to just open 2 graphics devices, arrange them side by side, then set up the code to let you select in one, then switch to the other to do the plotting. See ?dev.new and ?dev.set.
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Baoqiang Cao <bqcaom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plot something in the following way and would like if > you could help: > > I'd like in a same plot window, two plots are shown, the left one is a > bird-view plot of the whole data, the right half keep changing, i.e., > different plots will be shown up on request, so that when I > select/click on some where in the left plot, the right plot will be > the corresponding plot. > > What I did is: > > par(mfrow=c(1,2)) > plot(x, y) > > while(1) { > ... > pxy <- locator(1, type="p") > > #select data point (dx,dy) based on pxy for a new plot > .. > > plot(dx,dy) > } > > I ended up with the left plot is overwritten by plot(dx,dy). Is there > anyway to keep the left side intact while changing plots on the right > side? > > > Thanks a lot! > > Baoqiang > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.