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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208201625220.5878-100000@bolker.zoo.ufl.edu>
Date: 2002-08-20T20:29:00Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: Multi-plot
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0208202021560.17166-100000@gannet.stats>

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
> >   Q to gurus: is there a simple way to get the command for the default
> > graphics driver, something like options()$createdevice [options$device is
> > useful but "X11" can't quite be turned into x11() without some hacking,
> > and I don't know if that hack would work generally].  You can always write
> > a little bit of conditional code, but I'm just wondering if there's a
> > simple one-liner ...
> 
> eval(get(getOption("device"))())
> 
> is essentially what the internal code does.  I've written that several
> times before, and will see if I can find a place to put it in the
> online docs.  (Ben: Suggestions welcome as to where.)
> 

  How about ?Devices  ?  (I think that's the first place I would look ...)  
And/or ?options, under "device"  (the case difference between "X11" and 
x11() [which I now realize is an alias for X11(), but is how I usually 
invoke it] also confused me).


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