DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams |
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Copy and Print Devices |
From a MS/Windows screen device you can choose from the right mouse button menu to Copy the graphics to the Clipboard as a MS/Metafile or Bitmap format, or else to save the graphics to a file as a Metafile or PostScript file. You can also directly print the graphic from the same menu. This functionality is not available on the X11 screen device under Unix and GNU/Linux.
Having interactively generated a graphic you can copy the graphic to
any other device with the dev.copy function. R
accomplishes this by keeping a so called display list which
tracks the graphics operations used to draw the graphic. When a copy
is requested, or the graphics needs to be redrawn, these graphics
commands are executed.
> dev.set(3) > dev.copy(pdf, file="currentplot.pdf") > dev.off() |
The recording of the graphics operations is enabled only for screen
devices. The recording to the display list can be turned off, if
memory is at a premium:
> dev.control("inhibit") |