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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