Re: [R] Graphics device size

Actually it does.
Thank you, Prof. Ripley.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:26 PM
To: Christos Hatzis
Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Graphics device size

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christos Hatzis wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> When working with composite plots many times I have to manually
>> adjust the graphics display window size to get the best results (in
>> Windows XP). I can then find the size of the adjusted window in inches
using par("din").
>>
>> Now I would like to export the adjusted graphs as png's and have them
>> look as close to the original display as possible. The problem is
>> that the png device accepts size arguments in pixels so that I need
>> to convert inches to pixels. Is there a way to get the default
>> pixels-per-inch that the windows device uses? RSiteSearch("ppi") did not
return any helpful hints.
>
> Well, yes, but only by calling the Win API for your own C code. It is
> often not very accurate. Interestingly, it is actually in pixels per cm.
>
> What is harder is to do is to find out how large you have resized the
> graphics window to. Since in fact that is stored in pixels, you don't
> need the pixels-per-inch, but I can see no way to do this without C
> code (the info is both in the private structure defined in
> devWindows.h and in the device-driver structure via right - left, bottom -
top).

Doesn't savePlot(, type="png") do everything that you might want here?

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