[Rd] Graphical device questions!

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Feb 15 17:27:11 CET 2007


On 2/15/2007 10:47 AM, Sebastien Durand wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have posted these questions in r-help list but 
> since I am getting no reply, I concluded that I 
> must asked my question in the wrong list so here 
> I am!

I think you asked in the right place last time, but nobody knew the 
answer.
> 
> Here is my questions:
> 
> 1- Under a WINDOWS installation of R-2.4.1,  can 
> we change the naming of a new ploting device open 
> by the command "windows()"?. Instead of the 
> default name e.g.: "Device 2" I would like to use 
> something like "Density plot" or whatever!

No, there's no facility to allow you to do that.
> 
> 
> 2- Under a MAC OS X installation of R-2.4.1, 
> using quartz devices, is there a way to perform 
> bringToTop operation like the one available under 
> WINDOWS using bringToTop function.

That name only is only used in Win32 builds.  There might be similar 
functionality available in OSX or X11 under a different name.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thank you very much for your time.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Sébastien
>



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