It is possible that the plot function starts to plot before the new device is fully in place, you could try sleeping for a second or 2 between the call to dev.new and the call to plot.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:16 PM > To: R help > Subject: [R] adding new devices and plots > > Dear R People: > > I have the following function: > > > eplot > function (x) > { > plot(x) > z <- locator(2) > dev.new() > plot(window(x, start = min(z$x), end = max(z$x))) > } > > > > I want to generate a new plot from a subset of the original, but I > want to keep the original plot up. When I use this, it opens a new > window, but the first device goes blank. > > Is there a way around this, please? > > Thank you! > Sincerely, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodg...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
