On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 14:47, Rajarshi Guha wrote: > > Hi I had two questions regarding plots: > > > > * Is there are way to save a plot in the form of an object such that it > > could be displayed/modified later? > > Depends on what you want to do. Probably not for regular (base) plots.
I think ?recordPlot does this, at least to allow plots to be saved, displayed again and added to. > The > grid package has a concept of objects that can be edited (before and/or > after plotting them). Functions in the lattice package produce objects > that may be close to what you want. They are not plots themselves, but > rather a self-contained description of a plot (in the sense that they > contain the data as well as instructions on how to plot it). The data part > cannot be easily changed, but almost everything else can be manipulated > before plotting. AFAIK that internal description is not documented and there are no end-user tools for doing the manipulation. Can you please point us to details? I suspect nothing can _easily_ be changed by end-users at present. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
