dev2bitmap             package:grDevices             R Documentation

Graphics Device for Bitmap Files via GhostScript

Description:

     'bitmap' generates a graphics file. 'dev2bitmap' copies the
     current graphics device to a file in a graphics format.

Usage:

     bitmap(file, type = "png256", height = 6, width = 6, res = 72,
            pointsize, ...)

     dev2bitmap(file, type = "png256", height = 6, width = 6, res = 72,
                pointsize, ...)

Arguments:

    file: The output file name, with an appropriate extension.

    type: The type of bitmap. the default is '"png256"'.

  height: The plot height, in inches.

   width: The plot width, in inches.

     res: Resolution, in dots per inch.

pointsize: The pointsize to be used for text: defaults to something
          reasonable given the width and height

     ...: Other parameters passed to 'postscript'.

Details:

     'dev2bitmap' works by copying the current device to a 'postscript'
     device, and post-processing the output file using 'ghostscript'. 
     'bitmap' works in the same way using a 'postscript' device and
     postprocessing the output as "printing".

     You will need a version of 'ghostscript' (5.10 and later have been
     tested): the full path to the executable can be set by the
     environment variable 'R_GSCMD'. (If this is unset the command
     '"gs"' is used.)

     The types available will depend on the version of 'ghostscript',
     but are likely to include '"pcxmono"', '"pcxgray"', '"pcx16"',
     '"pcx256"', '"pcx24b"', '"pcxcmyk"', '"pbm"', '"pbmraw"', '"pgm"',
     '"pgmraw"', '"pgnm"', '"pgnmraw"', '"pnm"', '"pnmraw"', '"ppm"',
     '"ppmraw"', '"pkm"', '"pkmraw"', '"tiffcrle"', '"tiffg3"',
     '"tiffg32d"', '"tiffg4"', '"tifflzw"', '"tiffpack"', '"tiff12nc"',
     '"tiff24nc"', '"psmono"', '"psgray"', '"psrgb"', '"bit"',
     '"bitrgb"', '"bitcmyk"', '"pngmono"', '"pnggray"', '"png16"',
     '"png256"', '"png16m"', '"jpeg"', '"jpeggray"', '"pdfwrite"'.

     Note: despite the name of the functions they can produce PDF _via_
     'type = "pdfwrite"', and the PDF produced is not bitmapped.

     For formats which contain a single image, a file specification
     like 'Rplots%03d.png' can be used: this is interpreted by
     GhostScript.

     For 'dev2bitmap' if just one of 'width' and 'height' is specified,
     the other is chosen to preserve aspect ratio of the device being
     copied.

Value:

     None.

See Also:

     'postscript', 'png' and 'jpeg' and on Windows 'bmp'.

     'pdf' generate PDF directly.

     To display an array of data, see 'image'.

