On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> G'day Leif,
>
>>>>>> "LK" == Leif Kirschenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> LK> How do I do this such that I can specify FOO to be one of
> LK> several choices? (GDD, PNG, postscript, etc.) If I make FOO a
> LK> character variable, then "dev.print" complains.
> Mmh, I am not sure what the complaint of R 2.2.0 on MS Windows is, but
> I guess it is the same as under linux:
>
>> DEVw=500
>> DEVh=350
>> fname="my_plot"
>> plot(rnorm(300))
>> FOO <- "png"
>> dev.print(file=fname, device=FOO, width=DEVw, height=DEVh, bg="transparent")
> Error in dev.copy(device = "png", file = fname, width = DEVw, height = DEVh,
> :
> 'device' should be a function
>
> Which is very informative. `device' is supposed to be a function, not
> a character variable, thus:
>
>> FOO <- png
>> dev.print(file=fname, device=FOO, width=DEVw, height=DEVh, bg="transparent")
> X11
> 2
>> FOO <- pdf
>> dev.print(file=fname, device=FOO, width=DEVw, height=DEVh, bg="transparent")
> X11
> 2
>
> all seem to work.
And my guess is that Leif wants to be able to do
mydevice <- "png"
dev.print(device = get(mydevice), ...)
^^^
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