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grid.set {grid}R Documentation

Set a Grid Graphical Object

Description

Replace a grob or a descendant of a grob.

Usage

grid.set(gPath, newGrob, strict = FALSE, redraw = TRUE) 
setGrob(gTree, gPath, newGrob, strict = FALSE) 

Arguments

gTree

A gTree object.

gPath

A gPath object. For grid.set this specifyies a grob on the display list. For setGrob this specifies a descendant of the specified gTree.

strict

A boolean indicating whether the gPath must be matched exactly.

newGrob

A grob object.

redraw

A logical value to indicate whether to redraw the grob.

Details

setGrob copies the specified grob and returns a modified grob.

grid.set destructively replaces a grob on the display list. If redraw is TRUE it then redraws everything to reflect the change.

These functions should not normally be called by the user.

Value

setGrob returns a grob object; grid.set returns NULL.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

See Also

grid.grob.


[Package grid version 1.9.1 ]