DATA MINING Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home List of Figures List of Tables Data Mining Data Mining Data Mining with Rattle Introduction Data Transform Explore A Model Building Framework Unsupervised Modelling Two Class Models Multi Class Models Regression Models Text Mining Evaluation and Deployment Moving into R Troubleshooting R for the Data Miner R Data Graphics in R Understanding Data Preparing Data Building Models Evaluating Models Algorithms Apriori Bagging Bayes Classifier Boosting Cluster Analysis Conditional Trees Hierarchical Clustering K-Means K-Nearest Neighbours Linear Models Logistic Regression Neural Networks Support Vector Machines Text Mining Open Products AlphaMiner Borgelt Data Mining Suite KNime R Rattle Weka Closed Products C4.5 Clementine Equbits Foresight GhostMiner InductionEngine ODM Enterprise Miner Statistica Data Miner TreeNet Virtual Predict Appendicies Glossary Bibliography Index

Copy and Print Devices

From a MS/Windows screen device you can choose from the right mouse button menu to Copy the graphics to the Clipboard as a MS/Metafile or Bitmap format, or else to save the graphics to a file as a Metafile or PostScript file. You can also directly print the graphic from the same menu. This functionality is not available on the X11 screen device under Unix and GNU/Linux.

Having interactively generated a graphic you can copy the graphic to any other device with the dev.copy function. R accomplishes this by keeping a so called display list which tracks the graphics operations used to draw the graphic. When a copy is requested, or the graphics needs to be redrawn, these graphics commands are executed.

> dev.set(3)
> dev.copy(pdf, file="currentplot.pdf")
> dev.off()

The recording of the graphics operations is enabled only for screen devices. The recording to the display list can be turned off, if memory is at a premium:

> dev.control("inhibit")

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