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grid.edit: Edit the Description of a Grid Graphical Object

grid.edit

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Edit the Description of a Grid Graphical Object

Description

Changes the value of one of the slots of a grob and redraws the grob.

Usage

grid.edit(gPath, ..., strict = FALSE, grep = FALSE,
          global = FALSE, allDevices = FALSE, redraw = TRUE)

grid.gedit(..., grep = TRUE, global = TRUE)

editGrob(grob, gPath = NULL, ..., strict = FALSE, grep = FALSE,
         global = FALSE, warn = TRUE)

Arguments

`grob`	A grob object.
`...`	Zero or more named arguments specifying new slot values.
`gPath`	A gPath object. For `grid.edit` this specifies a grob on the display list. For `editGrob` this specifies a descendant of the specified grob.
`strict`	A boolean indicating whether the gPath must be matched exactly.
`grep`	A boolean indicating whether the `gPath` should be treated as a regular expression. Values are recycled across elements of the `gPath` (e.g., `c(TRUE, FALSE)` means that every odd element of the `gPath` will be treated as a regular expression).
`global`	A boolean indicating whether the function should affect just the first match of the `gPath`, or whether all matches should be affected.
`warn`	A logical to indicate whether failing to find the specified gPath should trigger an error.
`allDevices`	A boolean indicating whether all open devices should be searched for matches, or just the current device. NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
`redraw`	A logical value to indicate whether to redraw the grob.

Details

editGrob copies the specified grob and returns a modified grob.

grid.edit destructively modifies a grob on the display list. If redraw is TRUE it then redraws everything to reflect the change.

Both functions call editDetails to allow a grob to perform custom actions and validDetails to check that the modified grob is still coherent.

grid.gedit (g for global) is just a convenience wrapper for grid.edit with different defaults.

Value

editGrob returns a grob object; grid.edit returns NULL.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

Examples

grid.newpage()
grid.xaxis(name = "xa", vp = viewport(width=.5, height=.5))
grid.edit("xa", gp = gpar(col="red"))
# won't work because no ticks (at is NULL)
try(grid.edit(gPath("xa", "ticks"), gp = gpar(col="green")))
grid.edit("xa", at = 1:4/5)
# Now it should work
try(grid.edit(gPath("xa", "ticks"), gp = gpar(col="green")))