Thanks Brian,
I wrote a tiny script employing your answer.
resize.win <- function(Width=6, Height=6)
{
# works for windows
dev.off(); # dev.new(width=6, height=6)
windows(record=TRUE, width=Width, height=Height)
}
resize.win(5,5)
plot(rnorm(100))
resize.win(10,10)
plot(rnorm(100))
Best,
Tal
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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Tal Galili wrote:
>
> Thanks for replying Brian.
>> Indeed, I am working on windows (XP).
>>
>> I tried doing:
>> dev.new(record = T)
>> And got:
>> Warning message:
>> mode(record) differs between new and previous
>> ==> NOT changing record
>>
>> But if I understood you, I could open a window with a plot, then open a
>> new
>> one (with different dimensions), and then close the old plot device, while
>> still keeping all my record. Did I get this correctly ?
>>
>
> Yes: it worked for me when I tried it.
>
>
> (if so, I would love a simple example of how that can be done using the
>> record = T)
>>
>
> It is windows() and not dev.new() that you need to call with record=TRUE.
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>>
>> Tal
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
>> >
>> wrote:
>> You haven't mentioned an OS nor a graphics device, So I will
>> guess Windows and windows(), since that is commonest device with
>> a history.
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Tal Galili wrote:
>>
>> Hello dear R-help members,
>>
>> Very soon I am to give a lecture on R. And in that
>> lecture I intend to move
>> between: par(mfrow = c(1,1)) to par(mfrow = c(1,2))
>> back and forth.
>> I anticipate this will damage the image proportions
>> and will force me to
>> resize the window.
>> So far I have found it is possible to close the
>> window and then reopen it
>> (bigger/smaller) by using:
>>
>>
>> dev.off()dev.new(width=5, height=4)plot(1:20)
>>
>>
>> The issue with this solution is that I loose all the
>> history I had with
>> these windows.
>>
>> Thus, my question is either of two:
>> 1) Can I resize a plot window AFTER it was created ?
>>
>>
>> Not programmatically. But you can have more than one device open and
>> switch between them by dev.next/dev.set ....
>>
>> 2) can you save and load a plot history, for between
>> closing and opening a
>> graphic device ?
>>
>>
>> Yes, from the menu. There is also the more general
>> recordPlot/replayPlot mechanism.
>>
>> But note that the windows() plot history is shared between devices, so
>> if you work with multiple windows their histories will be interleaved.
>> It is a history _of the session_ and so you can page back into the
>> history of previously opened devices.
>>
>> So I would do this by opening a device with record = TRUE, and when I
>> needed a different aspect ratio, open one with record = FALSE and
>> close it when I was done with it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Tal
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>>
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