Dear Prof Ripley,
Thank you very much for your advice. In fact, I have already tried
'par("din")'. It does not seems to pick up the changes made to the
window. For example, I issued the par command after the plot:
> par("din")
[1] 7.5 7.0
[changed window size]
> par("din")
[1] 7.5 7.0
The result is exactly the same after changes made to the window. Thanks
again.
Best wishes,
Edmond
>>> Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> 15/02/10 14:35 >>>
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear R-listers,
>
> I am writing a function that will generate a simple plot for the
> user . The size of the window (that contains the plot) may not be
> what the user wants.
>
> Supposing the user adjusts the window to a size of her/his choice, I
> would like to be able to save the new window size and specify the
> plot to be of this new window size when the user calls my function
> again. My question is what is the kind of 'get' or save graphic
> parameter command that I need to extract the size of the current
> window? I have looked at 'par' and 'getOption' but they don't seem
> to what I need.
>From the help for par:
ÌdinÌ _*R.O.*_; the device dimensions, Ì(width,height)Ì, in
inches.
seems to be exactly what you are asking for.
(I'd be cautious about saving this across sessions: users may well use
R on different computers with a common file system.)
> Many thanks for any advice in advance.
>
> Best wishes,
> Edmond
>
>
>
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