recordPlot             package:grDevices             R Documentation

Record and Replay Plots

Description:

     Functions to save the current plot in an R variable, and to replay
     it.

Usage:

     recordPlot()
     replayPlot(x)

Arguments:

       x: A saved plot.

Details:

     These functions record and replay the displaylist of the current
     graphics device.  The returned object is of class
     '"recordedplot"', and 'replayPlot' acts as a 'print' method for
     that class.

Value:

     'recordPlot' returns an object of class '"recordedplot"'.

     'replayPlot' has no return value.

Warning:

     The format of recorded plots may change between R versions.
     Recorded plots should *not* be used as a permanent storage format
     for R plots.

     R will always attempt to replay a recorded plot, but if the plot
     was  recorded with a different R version then bad things may
     happen.

