Re: [R] Double buffering plots on Windows
Hi I would not describe myself as a heavy user of this stuff (either Windows or animation) - are you able to share your examples ? Paul On 26/03/24 04:23, Michael L Friendly wrote: Hi Paul Is there a concrete working example somewhere that shows how to use these to do an animation on Windows (R Gui &/or RStudio) using base R plot() and friends? I have several old examples somewhere that used to work (R < ~ 3), but now no longer work as before. Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:43:29 +1300 From: Paul Murrell mailto:p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz>> To: "Bickis, Mikelis" mailto:bic...@math.usask.ca>>, "r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>" mailto:r-help@r-project.org>> Subject: Re: [R] Double buffering plots on Windows Message-ID: mailto:b74c68da-a0b2-47dd-b54f-6b318488c...@stat.auckland.ac.nz>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Hi Take a look at dev.hold() and dev.flush() Paul --- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 4700 Keele Street Web: http://www.datavis.ca <http://www.datavis.ca><http://www.datavis.ca/ <http://www.datavis.ca/>> | @datavisFriendly Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Dr Paul Murrell (he/him) Te Kura Tatauranga | Department of Statistics Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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] Double buffering plots on Windows
Hi Paul Is there a concrete working example somewhere that shows how to use these to do an animation on Windows (R Gui &/or RStudio) using base R plot() and friends? I have several old examples somewhere that used to work (R < ~ 3), but now no longer work as before. Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:43:29 +1300 From: Paul Murrell mailto:p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz>> To: "Bickis, Mikelis" mailto:bic...@math.usask.ca>>, "r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>" mailto:r-help@r-project.org>> Subject: Re: [R] Double buffering plots on Windows Message-ID: mailto:b74c68da-a0b2-47dd-b54f-6b318488c...@stat.auckland.ac.nz>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Hi Take a look at dev.hold() and dev.flush() Paul --- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249 4700 Keele StreetWeb: http://www.datavis.ca<http://www.datavis.ca/> | @datavisFriendly Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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] Double buffering plots on Windows
Hi
Take a look at dev.hold() and dev.flush()
Paul
On 23/03/24 06:43, Bickis, Mikelis wrote:
Hello:
I want to present a sequence of plots as an animation. As a toy example
consider the code
function(n){for (i in 1:n){
plot(1:100,sin(i*(1:100)),type="l")
title(paste("n=",i))
segments(0,0,100,0,col=2)
}}
This sort-of works on a MacOS platform, but the rendering of the plots
is a bit choppy. Inserting a sleep function allows the plots to evolve
smoothly.
function(n){for (i in 1:n){
plot(1:100,sin(i*(1:100)),type="l")
title(paste("n=",i))
segments(0,0,100,0,col=2)
Sys.sleep(.2)
}}
However, on a Windows platform, only the last plot is rendered without
the Sys.sleep, so the dynamic element is lost. Inserting the Sys.sleep
does allow all the plots to be rendered, but they seem to be erased
before they are drawn again, so there is substantial flicker in the
appearance.
Is there some kind of double-buffering available within R, so that plots
are rendered only after they are fully drawn, leaving the previous plot
visible until it is replaced? I just used the default graphics driver on
Windows — is there perhaps a different driver that will the graphics
smoother?
Mik Bickis
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Saskatchewan
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Re: [R] Double buffering plots on Windows
A search on "make animated plots in R" brought up many hits and the
gganimate package (and maybe others, as I didn't scroll through).
Bert
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 18:45 Bickis, Mikelis wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I want to present a sequence of plots as an animation. As a toy example
> consider the code
>
> function(n){for (i in 1:n){
> plot(1:100,sin(i*(1:100)),type="l")
> title(paste("n=",i))
> segments(0,0,100,0,col=2)
> }}
>
> This sort-of works on a MacOS platform, but the rendering of the plots is
> a bit choppy. Inserting a sleep function allows the plots to evolve
> smoothly.
>
> function(n){for (i in 1:n){
> plot(1:100,sin(i*(1:100)),type="l")
> title(paste("n=",i))
> segments(0,0,100,0,col=2)
> Sys.sleep(.2)
> }}
>
> However, on a Windows platform, only the last plot is rendered without the
> Sys.sleep, so the dynamic element is lost. Inserting the Sys.sleep does
> allow all the plots to be rendered, but they seem to be erased before they
> are drawn again, so there is substantial flicker in the appearance.
>
> Is there some kind of double-buffering available within R, so that plots
> are rendered only after they are fully drawn, leaving the previous plot
> visible until it is replaced? I just used the default graphics driver on
> Windows — is there perhaps a different driver that will the graphics
> smoother?
>
> Mik Bickis
> Professor Emeritus
> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Saskatchewan
> __
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> 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.
>
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[R] Double buffering plots on Windows
Hello:
I want to present a sequence of plots as an animation. As a toy example
consider the code
function(n){for (i in 1:n){
plot(1:100,sin(i*(1:100)),type="l")
title(paste("n=",i))
segments(0,0,100,0,col=2)
}}
This sort-of works on a MacOS platform, but the rendering of the plots is a bit
choppy. Inserting a sleep function allows the plots to evolve smoothly.
function(n){for (i in 1:n){
plot(1:100,sin(i*(1:100)),type="l")
title(paste("n=",i))
segments(0,0,100,0,col=2)
Sys.sleep(.2)
}}
However, on a Windows platform, only the last plot is rendered without the
Sys.sleep, so the dynamic element is lost. Inserting the Sys.sleep does allow
all the plots to be rendered, but they seem to be erased before they are drawn
again, so there is substantial flicker in the appearance.
Is there some kind of double-buffering available within R, so that plots are
rendered only after they are fully drawn, leaving the previous plot visible
until it is replaced? I just used the default graphics driver on Windows — is
there perhaps a different driver that will the graphics smoother?
Mik Bickis
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Saskatchewan
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