[R] grid - deleting and erasing grobs?

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


M.Kondrin wrote:
> Hello!
> Don't quite understand how can I delete grobs and simultaneously erase 
> graphic output they produce. I first change grob's "vp" field to null 
> (grid.edit(gr,vp=NULL)) to erase it and then call rm(gr) (as grobs are 
> external pointers I'm not shure what this method actually frees 
> allocated memory).
> May be there is simpler method?
> Does garbage collector have any effect on grobs?
> Thank you in advance


You can't delete grobs interactively.
It is theoretically possible, but it has not been implemented (yet).
[more detail on a reply shifted to R-devel]

Paul
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