ragg (version 0.1.1)

agg_png: Draw to a PNG file

Description

The PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format is one of the most ubiquitous today, due to its versatiliity and widespread support. It supports transparancy as well as both 8 and 16 bit colour. The device uses default compression and filtering and will not use a colour palette as this is less useful for antialiased data. This means that it might be possible to compress the resulting image even more if size is of concern (though the defaults are often very good). In contrast to [grDevices::png()] the date and time will not be written to the file, meaning that similar plot code will produce identical files (a good feature if used with version control). It will, however, write in the dimensions of the image based on the `res` argument.

Usage

agg_png(filename = "Rplot%03d.png", width = 480, height = 480,
  units = "px", pointsize = 12, background = "white", res = 72,
  bitsize = 8)

Arguments

filename

The name of the file. Follows the same semantics as the file naming in [grDevices::png()], meaning that you can provide a [sprintf()] compliant string format to name multiple plots (such as the default value)

width

The dimensions of the device

height

The dimensions of the device

units

The unit `width` and `height` is measured in, in either pixels (`'px'`), inches (`'in'`), millimeters (`'mm'`), or centimeter (`'cm'`).

pointsize

The default pointsize of the device in pt

background

The background colour of the device

res

The resolution of the device. This setting will govern how device dimensions given in inches, centimeters, or millimeters will be converted to pixels. Further, it will be used to scale text sizes and linewidths

bitsize

Should the device record colour as 8 or 16bit

Examples

# NOT RUN {
file <- tempfile(fileext = '.png')
agg_png(file)
plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
dev.off()

# }