On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: > Jim Lemon made essentially the same suggestion: run the code that > created the plot twice, once with X11 as the active device, and again > with postscript as the active device. > > The trouble with this is that is doesn't handle plots that the user has > edited. I have some charts that users add things to interactively, > using combinations of locator(), text(), mtext(), and arrows(). There's > no nice way to know what a user has done to a plot before he attempts to > print it.
Yes, see the sections on `Graphics hardcopy' in section A.1 of MASS4 for exactly this comment: it is hardly news. You could record what the users do as they do it by using your own versions of these functions. > I know that R is internally maintaining a display list. Is there a way > to access that without dropping into C? And what's in it, anyway? Not really (recordPlot etc does), and not documented AFAIK (but Paul Murrell will be able to correct me if I am wrong here). However, I am pretty sure that it has the actual plot colours and not the colour numbers in it. -- 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
