quartz {base}

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MacOS X Quartz device

Description

quartz starts a graphics device driver for the MacOS X System. This can only be done on machines that run MacOS X.

Usage

quartz(display = "", width = 6, height = 6, pointsize = 12,
    family = "Helvetica", antialias = TRUE, autorefresh = TRUE)

Arguments

display	the display on which the graphics window will appear. The default is to use the value in the user's environment variable DISPLAY.
width	the width of the plotting window in inches.
height	the height of the plotting window in inches.
pointsize	the default pointsize to be used.
family	this is the family name of the Postscript font that will be used by the device.
antialias	whether to use antialiasing. It is never the case to set it FALSE
autorefresh	this sets realtime refreshing. If it is set to FALSE, then the System is charged to refresh the context of the device window.

Details

Quartz is the graphic engine based on the PDF format. It is used by the graphic interface of MacOS X to render high quality graphics. As PDF it is device independent and can be rescaled without loss of definition.

See Also

Devices.

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