[R] How do I change which R Graphics Device is active?

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Ted
Harding<Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Barry, spot on! If there were a prize for postings with
> simplicity, clarity, conciseness and usability, I would nominate
> yours (especially in the "Why didn't *I* think of that?" category).

 Thanks Ted!

 It's just a shame dev.new() doesn't return the device number, since
that would make things even simpler:

# does not work like this:
 xyPlot = dev.new()
histPlot = dev.new()

 Instead it returns whatever the device function (X11,png,postscript
etc) returns, and they all seem to return NULLs. I suppose in the
future a device function might return something useful.

Barry