Re: [R] Manage several graphical devices in interactive mode
Thanks Duncan and Ted, That will be tremendously helpful to me. In combination with the width/height and xpos/ypos arguments, I think I'll be able to create this matrix of devices I am looking for. Thanks again Sebastien On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.comwrote: On 25/07/2010 10:03 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 25-Jul-10 13:22:11, Sébastien Bihorel wrote: Dear R-users, Does anybody know a good way to create and use several graphical devices at the same time in interactive mode? Ideally, I'd like to open 2 to 3 devices and assign names to them. This way, I could make any addition/modification/update to a particular device using its name. I did not see anything like a name argument in ?X11. Is there an alternative? Thanks in advance for your feeback. Sebastien You can certainly do this by hand. The basic R terminal is device number 1. If you do X11() (or invoke it implicitly by using a 'plot' command) this will be device number 2. With just this one open, any 'plot' (or plot-related) commands will re-use it. However, having opened device #2, you can do X11() again and get a second graphics device which will be number 3. And so on, for as many additional devices as you like. By default, the device that the results of any 'plot' command are sent to will be the most recently opened one. However, you can select the device using the command dev.set(n) where n ( = 2,3,... ) is the device you want to use. The device which is active will be shown by the word (ACTIVE) attached to its display. All other devices will show (inactive). You could name your devices by indexing a vector (2:n) by names. Try the following, Starting with no graphics devices open: X11() # dev 2 X11() # dev 3 X11() # dev 4 ## This one is currently active That's the right idea, but I wouldn't count on the numbers coming out 2, 3, 4: what if another device was already opened? Better to use dev.cur() just after you open a new device to find out what its number was. So do something like X11() plotA - dev.cur() X11() plotB - dev.cur() X11() plotC - dev.cur() dev.set(plotA) # first one is active etc. Duncan Murdoch ## Arange these so that you can see all their top bars devN - c(plotA=2,plotB=3,plotC=4) dev.set(devN[plotA]) # dev 2 is active dev.set(devN[plotC]) # dev 4 is active dev.set(devN[plotB]) # dev 3 is active dev.set(devN[plotA]) # dev 2 is active dev.set(devN[plotC]) # dev 4 is active Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Jul-10 Time: 15:03:14 -- XFMail -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] Manage several graphical devices in interactive mode
Dear R-users, Does anybody know a good way to create and use several graphical devices at the same time in interactive mode? Ideally, I'd like to open 2 to 3 devices and assign names to them. This way, I could make any addition/modification/update to a particular device using its name. I did not see anything like a name argument in ?X11. Is there an alternative? Thanks in advance for your feeback. Sebastien [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Manage several graphical devices in interactive mode
On 25-Jul-10 13:22:11, Sébastien Bihorel wrote: Dear R-users, Does anybody know a good way to create and use several graphical devices at the same time in interactive mode? Ideally, I'd like to open 2 to 3 devices and assign names to them. This way, I could make any addition/modification/update to a particular device using its name. I did not see anything like a name argument in ?X11. Is there an alternative? Thanks in advance for your feeback. Sebastien You can certainly do this by hand. The basic R terminal is device number 1. If you do X11() (or invoke it implicitly by using a 'plot' command) this will be device number 2. With just this one open, any 'plot' (or plot-related) commands will re-use it. However, having opened device #2, you can do X11() again and get a second graphics device which will be number 3. And so on, for as many additional devices as you like. By default, the device that the results of any 'plot' command are sent to will be the most recently opened one. However, you can select the device using the command dev.set(n) where n ( = 2,3,... ) is the device you want to use. The device which is active will be shown by the word (ACTIVE) attached to its display. All other devices will show (inactive). You could name your devices by indexing a vector (2:n) by names. Try the following, Starting with no graphics devices open: X11() # dev 2 X11() # dev 3 X11() # dev 4 ## This one is currently active ## Arange these so that you can see all their top bars devN - c(plotA=2,plotB=3,plotC=4) dev.set(devN[plotA]) # dev 2 is active dev.set(devN[plotC]) # dev 4 is active dev.set(devN[plotB]) # dev 3 is active dev.set(devN[plotA]) # dev 2 is active dev.set(devN[plotC]) # dev 4 is active Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Jul-10 Time: 15:03:14 -- XFMail -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Manage several graphical devices in interactive mode
On 25/07/2010 10:03 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: On 25-Jul-10 13:22:11, Sébastien Bihorel wrote: Dear R-users, Does anybody know a good way to create and use several graphical devices at the same time in interactive mode? Ideally, I'd like to open 2 to 3 devices and assign names to them. This way, I could make any addition/modification/update to a particular device using its name. I did not see anything like a name argument in ?X11. Is there an alternative? Thanks in advance for your feeback. Sebastien You can certainly do this by hand. The basic R terminal is device number 1. If you do X11() (or invoke it implicitly by using a 'plot' command) this will be device number 2. With just this one open, any 'plot' (or plot-related) commands will re-use it. However, having opened device #2, you can do X11() again and get a second graphics device which will be number 3. And so on, for as many additional devices as you like. By default, the device that the results of any 'plot' command are sent to will be the most recently opened one. However, you can select the device using the command dev.set(n) where n ( = 2,3,... ) is the device you want to use. The device which is active will be shown by the word (ACTIVE) attached to its display. All other devices will show (inactive). You could name your devices by indexing a vector (2:n) by names. Try the following, Starting with no graphics devices open: X11() # dev 2 X11() # dev 3 X11() # dev 4 ## This one is currently active That's the right idea, but I wouldn't count on the numbers coming out 2, 3, 4: what if another device was already opened? Better to use dev.cur() just after you open a new device to find out what its number was. So do something like X11() plotA - dev.cur() X11() plotB - dev.cur() X11() plotC - dev.cur() dev.set(plotA) # first one is active etc. Duncan Murdoch ## Arange these so that you can see all their top bars devN - c(plotA=2,plotB=3,plotC=4) dev.set(devN[plotA]) # dev 2 is active dev.set(devN[plotC]) # dev 4 is active dev.set(devN[plotB]) # dev 3 is active dev.set(devN[plotA]) # dev 2 is active dev.set(devN[plotC]) # dev 4 is active Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Jul-10 Time: 15:03:14 -- XFMail -- __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
