Allows one to convert an arbitrary GTK+ widget (usually a
GtkDrawingArea), a GdkDrawable
(like a GdkPixmap), a GtkPrintContext or a
Cairo context to a Cairo graphics device, so that R plot
commands draw to the given target.
asCairoDevice(widget, pointsize = 12, width = 500, height = 500)The GtkWidget, GdkDrawable,
GtkPrintContext, or Cairo context, to which the R
graphics are to be drawn
The default font size in the R plot
Width in user coordinates, only used if widget is a
Cairo context
Height in user coordinates, only used if widget is a
Cairo context
The main purpose of this function is to allow the user to embed an R plot in a GTK user interface constructed with RGtk2. Please see the examples in the RGtk2 package.
Drawing to an offscreen GdkPixmap is useful for
buffering and transforming R graphics.
For example, one could copy the pixmap to a GdkPixbuf
and add a watermark before saving as a gif, png, jpg, etc.
One may also pass a Cairo context as the widget
parameter. This allows targeting arbitary Cairo surfaces. Note that
the context state is for the most part not cleared before plotting, so
transformations, etc, will remain in effect. Unlike Cairo, the R
graphics system requires bounds to be specified, which may be done
through the width and height parameters.
As a convenience, GtkPrintContext is also accepted as the
widget parameter. This makes it easy to redirect R graphics to a
printer selected and configured through the GTK+ printing dialogs.
http://www.ggobi.org/rgtk2 http://www.gtk.org/ http://www.cairographics.org/