[R] resetting par() to all defaults: par(reset=TRUE) ?

[bbolker]

Michael Friendly wrote:
> 
> In a long session, producing multiple graphs, I sometimes repeatedly
> change par() settings, particularly with multi-row/col displays.
> If I'm using a script, I'll do
> 
> op <- par(newsettings)
> ... plots ...
> par(op)
> 
> but sometimes I do things on the fly and can't easily back out
> to the default settings.  I'm looking for someway to do the
> equivalent of
> 
> par(reset=TRUE)
> 
> I suppose I could do something like create Rprofile.site containing
> 
> .First <- function() par.default <- par()
> 
> and then par(par.default), but maybe there's an easier way I haven't 
> noticed.  [On Windows, I don't use Rprofile.site because it's one more
> thing to update with each new version.]
> 
> -Michael
> 

  Your solution seems pretty good to me (although I often use Deepayan's
dev.off(); windows() hack myself), but I would amend it to 
par.default <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)

   Ben

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