[Rd] raster support in graphics devices

[baptiste auguie]

Hi,

You can use grid.cap,

x11()
plot(1:10)
g = grid.cap()
dev.off()
str(g)
# chr [1:672, 1:671] "white" "white" "white" "white" "white" ...

but as far as I understand in ?grid.cap and the underlying code there
is no "capGrob" equivalent that wouldn't require opening a new device
before capturing the output.

 I hope I'm mistaken.

Best,

baptiste

2009/12/4 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>:
> Currently I have an application that saves the current graphics image (that
> was created with classic graphics or grid graphics) to a file and then reads
> the file back in using readBin:
>
> png("my.png")
> plot(1:10)
> dev.off()
> raw.img <- readBin("my.png", "raw", size = 1, n = 100000000)
>
> (I am doing this on Windows but would like to be able to do it on any
> platform.)
>
> Does the new raster functionality give me any way to get the object raw.img
> without creating the intermediate file, my.png?  If so what is the
> corresponding code?
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Paul Murrell <p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz>wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This is for developers of extension packages that provide extra *graphics
>> devices* for R.
>>
>> In the *development* version of R, support has been added to the graphics
>> engine for sending raster images (bitmaps) to a graphics device.  This
>> consists mainly of two new device functions:  dev_Raster() and dev_Cap().
>>
>> The R_GE_version constant (in GraphicsEngine.h) has been bumped up to 6 as
>> a marker of this change.
>>
>> This means that, at a minimum, all graphics devices should be updated to
>> provide dummy implementations of these new functions that just say the
>> feature is not yet implemented (see for example the PicTeX and XFig devices
>> in the 'grDevices' package).
>>
>> A full implementation of dev_Raster() should be able to draw a raster image
>> (provided as an array of 32-bit R colors) at any size, possibly (bilinear)
>> interpolated (otherwise nearest-neighbour), at any orientation, and with a
>> per-pixel alpha channel.  Where these are not natively supported by a
>> device, the graphics engine provides some routines for scaling and rotating
>> raster images (see for example the X11 device).  The dev_Cap() function
>> should return a representation of a raster image captured from the current
>> device.  This will only make sense for some devices (see for example the
>> Cairo device in the 'grDevices' package).
>>
>> A little more information and a couple of small examples are provided at
>> http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html
>>
>> Paul
>> --
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