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Devices {grDevices}R Documentation

List of Graphical Devices

Description

The following graphics devices are currently available:

The following devices will be functional if R was compiled to use them (they exist but will return with a warning on other systems):

Details

If no device is open, using a high-level graphics function will cause a device to be opened. Which device is given by options("device") which is initially set as the most appropriate for each platform: a screen device for most interactive use and pdf (or the setting of R_DEFAULT_DEVICE) otherwise. The exception is interactive use under Unix if no screen device is known to be available, when pdf()is used.

See Also

The individual help files for further information on any of the devices listed here; X11.options, quartz.options, ps.options and pdf.options for how to customize devices.

dev.interactive, dev.cur, dev.print, graphics.off, image, dev2bitmap.

capabilities to see if X11, jpeg png and quartz are available.

Examples

## Not run: 
## open the default screen device on this platform if no device is
## open
if(dev.cur() == 1) dev.new()

## End(Not run)

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