[R] How to tell if lattice is current device?

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Thu Feb 12 08:51:57 CET 2009


Remko Duursma <remkoduursma <at> gmail.com> writes:

> >> How can I tell if the current device was made with plot() or e.g.
> >> levelplot() or another lattice function?
> >> dev.cur() does not help me, it just tells me "windows 2".
> >
Deepayan:
> > A device can have both types, although that's rare.
> >
> > The best you can probably do is keep track of the last call to
> > plot.new() and grid.newpage(). See
> >
> > ?setHook
> > ?plot.new
> > ?grid.newpage
> >

Dieter:

library(lattice)
isStandard = function()
{
  options(graphics="standard")  
}
isLattice = function()
{
  options(graphics="lattice")  
}

setHook("plot.new",isStandard)
setHook("grid.newpage",isLattice)

xyplot(1~1)
options("graphics")
plot(1,1)
options("graphics")




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