On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:01:01 -0800, Byron Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The most obvious, and by far most difficult route, would be to make >graphics devices first class citizens (IIRC Duncan TL has brought this >up elsewhere) wherein you would aDev <- edit(aDev). That brings things >to the device level (what you want) and a static device could act >accordingly (i.e. not invoke a redraw). Obviously the most difficult as >it would be a massive upheaval of base graphics (I suppose all of this >could all be grouped under a category of "event-based streams," >graphics events, XML SAX events, file events--aka connections, etc. >Doesn't CL or Scheme have something along those lines?). But, as >mentioned in the thread, pretty speculative but you never can tell what >someone might hunker down and implement :-) Take a look at grid. I think it's more likely something like this would be built on top of grid than on top of base graphics. Or, if you want to try it: Take a look at grid. I think you'll find it a lot easier starting there than starting with base graphics. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
