Some years ago I wrote a plotting routine that was run
on both Linux & Windows computers.
There were some differences in the way the plot looked
from the windows device and the X11 device.
To ensure consistency I used
getOption("device"))
and made some changes to the plotting if the windows device was being used.
Using this routine again, years later, I now notice that
getOption("device") returns a function listing, but no longer a string
with the name of the device.
What is the best way to query which device is the default?
How to know what device I am using
2 messages · Halldór Björnsson, Charles C. Berry
See ?dev.cur and ?options esp. the para on 'device' under 'Options set in package grDevices' CCB
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Halld?r Bj?rnsson wrote:
Some years ago I wrote a plotting routine that was run
on both Linux & Windows computers.
There were some differences in the way the plot looked
from the windows device and the X11 device.
To ensure consistency I used
getOption("device"))
and made some changes to the plotting if the windows device was being used.
Using this routine again, years later, I now notice that
getOption("device") returns a function listing, but no longer a string
with the name of the device.
What is the best way to query which device is the default?
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