Hi

The main problem here is that you really shouldn't be poking around inside a "recordedplot" object. From the help page:

WARNING:

     The format of recorded plots may change between R versions.
     Recorded plots should *not* be used as a permanent storage format
     for R plots.

     R will always attempt to replay a recorded plot, but if the plot
     was  recorded with a different R version then bad things may
     happen.

This could (should) be more explicit. In particular, it might be worth adding a comment from the C source ...

 * The graphics engine assumes that it is getting a snapshot
 * that was created in THE CURRENT R SESSION

... [snapshot == recordedplot]. The basic message is: don't rely on the internal structure of a recordedplot because we can (and have [and will]) change it at any time.

That leaves the problem of how to achieve your "zoom", but I'm not sure exactly what your zoom is doing (just modifying the axis ranges?). Could you (privately) send me screen shots of before and after the zoom? Then I can try to suggest a "correct" way to zoom.

Paul


Jean Coursol wrote:
I want to do a zoom with recordPlot(). I have problems with lists.
(R-2.0.1 patched 2004-11-30 , various linux). I have problems with RecordPlot class structure.



plot(1:10)
saveP <- recordPlot()
dev.off()


sx <- saveP[[1]][[2]][[2]] saveP[[1]][[2]][[2]] <- sx

Error in "[[<-"(`*tmp*`, 1, value = list(list(
.Primitive("plot.new")), list(.Primitive("plot
.window"), c(1, : incompatible types



typeof(saveP[[1]][[2]][[2]])

[1] "double"

typeof(sx)

[1] "double"


But:


s1 <- saveP[[1]]
s1[[2]][[2]] <- c(4,6)
saveP[1] <- list(s1)
saveP                  # zoom is OK


Also, I don't understand recursive indexing.
With not modified saveP,



saveP[[c(1,2)]]

[[1]] .Primitive("plot.window")

[[2]]
[1]  1 10

[[3]]
[1]  1 10

[[4]]
[1] ""

[[5]]
[1] NA

# OK


saveP[[c(1,2,2)]]

Error: recursive indexing failed at level 2


# why not [1]  1 10 ??

Jean Coursol

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