Its not just the time. Its also the nuisance of having to manage files that
I never needed in the first place.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Romain Francois <romain.franc...@dbmail.com
> wrote:
> On 12/04/2009 03:19 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I am looking for the data to be just as if I had read in the png file (or
>> wmf file or whatever).
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> You are after the binary payload of the rendered graph as a png file. So
> you are going to have to go through a png file.
>
> It would be nice to be able to render to a binary connection, like a
> rawConnection, but it seems like an expensive "nice to have"
>
>
> grid.cap seems to give a bitmap and then would
>> require some sort of processing to get the png or wmf, etc. form. Also
>> note
>> that I need it for classic graphics and not just grid graphics.
>>
>
> grid.cap does not seem to care, baptiste code uses traditional graphics
>
>
> What I have right now works just as I want it _except_ I have to create a
>> file and then read it back in which seems a waste.
>>
>
> Can you measure the time it takes to do dev.off() and readBin ?
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, baptiste auguie<
>> baptiste.aug...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You can use grid.cap,
>>>
>>> x11()
>>> plot(1:10)
>>> g = grid.cap()
>>> dev.off()
>>> str(g)
>>> # chr [1:672, 1:671] "white" "white" "white" "white" "white" ...
>>>
>>> but as far as I understand in ?grid.cap and the underlying code there
>>> is no "capGrob" equivalent that wouldn't require opening a new device
>>> before capturing the output.
>>>
>>> I hope I'm mistaken.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> baptiste
>>>
>>> 2009/12/4 Gabor Grothendieck<ggrothendi...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Currently I have an application that saves the current graphics image
>>>>
>>> (that
>>>
>>>> was created with classic graphics or grid graphics) to a file and then
>>>>
>>> reads
>>>
>>>> the file back in using readBin:
>>>>
>>>> png("my.png")
>>>> plot(1:10)
>>>> dev.off()
>>>> raw.img<- readBin("my.png", "raw", size = 1, n = 100000000)
>>>>
>>>> (I am doing this on Windows but would like to be able to do it on any
>>>> platform.)
>>>>
>>>> Does the new raster functionality give me any way to get the object
>>>>
>>> raw.img
>>>
>>>> without creating the intermediate file, my.png? If so what is the
>>>> corresponding code?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Paul Murrell<p.murr...@auckland.ac.nz
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> This is for developers of extension packages that provide extra
>>>>>
>>>> *graphics
>>>
>>>> devices* for R.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the *development* version of R, support has been added to the
>>>>>
>>>> graphics
>>>
>>>> engine for sending raster images (bitmaps) to a graphics device. This
>>>>> consists mainly of two new device functions: dev_Raster() and
>>>>>
>>>> dev_Cap().
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The R_GE_version constant (in GraphicsEngine.h) has been bumped up to 6
>>>>>
>>>> as
>>>
>>>> a marker of this change.
>>>>>
>>>>> This means that, at a minimum, all graphics devices should be updated
>>>>> to
>>>>> provide dummy implementations of these new functions that just say the
>>>>> feature is not yet implemented (see for example the PicTeX and XFig
>>>>>
>>>> devices
>>>
>>>> in the 'grDevices' package).
>>>>>
>>>>> A full implementation of dev_Raster() should be able to draw a raster
>>>>>
>>>> image
>>>
>>>> (provided as an array of 32-bit R colors) at any size, possibly
>>>>>
>>>> (bilinear)
>>>
>>>> interpolated (otherwise nearest-neighbour), at any orientation, and with
>>>>>
>>>> a
>>>
>>>> per-pixel alpha channel. Where these are not natively supported by a
>>>>> device, the graphics engine provides some routines for scaling and
>>>>>
>>>> rotating
>>>
>>>> raster images (see for example the X11 device). The dev_Cap() function
>>>>> should return a representation of a raster image captured from the
>>>>>
>>>> current
>>>
>>>> device. This will only make sense for some devices (see for example the
>>>>> Cairo device in the 'grDevices' package).
>>>>>
>>>>> A little more information and a couple of small examples are provided
>>>>> at
>>>>> http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dr Paul Murrell
>>>>> Department of Statistics
>>>>> The University of Auckland
>>>>> Private Bag 92019
>>>>> Auckland
>>>>> New Zealand
>>>>> 64 9 3737599 x85392
>>>>> p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz
>>>>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/<http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epaul/>
>>>>> <http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epaul/>
>>>>>
>>>> <http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epaul/>
>>>
>>
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