| Devices {grDevices} | R Documentation |
The following graphics devices are currently available:
postscript Writes PostScript graphics commands to
a file
pdf Write PDF graphics commands to a file
pictex Writes LaTeX/PicTeX graphics commands to a
file
xfig Device for XFIG graphics file format
bitmap bitmap pseudo-device via
GhostScript (if available).
The following devices will be functional if R was compiled to use them (they exist but will return with a warning on other systems):
X11 The graphics device for the X11 Window system
bmp Windows bitmap device
jpeg JPEG bitmap device
png PNG bitmap device
tiff TIFF bitmap device
cairo_pdf, cairo_ps PDF and PostScript
devices based on cairo graphics.
quartz The graphics device for the Mac OS X
native Quartz 2d graphics system. (This is only functional on Mac
OS X, but unlike R < 2.7.0 can be used from the command line and
not just from the GUI console.)
If no device is open, using a high-level graphics function will cause
a device to be opened. Which device is given by
options("device") which is initially set as the most
appropriate for each platform: a screen device for most interactive use and
pdf (or the setting of R_DEFAULT_DEVICE)
otherwise. The exception is interactive use under Unix if no screen
device is known to be available, when pdf()is used.
The individual help files for further information on any of the
devices listed here;
X11.options, quartz.options,
ps.options and pdf.options for how to
customize devices.
dev.interactive,
dev.cur, dev.print,
graphics.off, image,
dev2bitmap.
capabilities to see if X11, jpeg
png and quartz are available.
## Not run: ## open the default screen device on this platform if no device is ## open if(dev.cur() == 1) dev.new() ## End(Not run)