makeDevice: Generic graphics device creator

In tunelipt/wutils: Useful functions for data processing in a wind tunnel

Description

An interface that creates graphical devices from a string characterizing the name.

Usage

makeDevice(dev = "pdf", width = 6, height = 6, ..., dpi = 96,
  pointsize = 16)

Arguments

dev	Character containing device name.
width	Default width
height	Default height
...	Other parameters that will passed on to tghe device function.
dpi	Dots per inche for use in bitmap devices.
pointsize	Default size for plotted text in bitmap devices.

Details

Very often different types of graphics need to be created. It is very annoying to enter all the parameters one at a time. Given the name of the device type and the size, this function returns a function that creates the appropriate device with the correct file extension.

The accepted devices are 'pdf', 'xfig', 'pictex', 'svg', 'wmf', 'postscript' (eps), 'window', 'png', 'jpeg', 'bmp', 'tiff', 'X11', 'quartz'. Default is pdf. For bitmaps the default resolution is 80 dpi.

Examples

fun <- makeDevice('pdf')
fun('teste')  # Create teste.pdf file.
plot(1:10)
dev.off()
fun <- makeDevice('png')
fun('teste') # Create teste.png file.
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

tunelipt/wutils documentation built on Nov. 5, 2019, 11:01 a.m.