Re: [R] call function immediately before plot.new()

Thanks Matthias and Gabor. You're both right. Matthias, I think that *was* what I read although now I realize that Gabor's suggestion is more along the lines of what I want to do. Though I have found one situation where this wouldn't really work properly: par(mfrow=c(2,2)) plot(rnorm(10)) plot(

Re: [R] call function immediately before plot.new()

Hi Jake, are you looking for argument "panel.first" of "plot.default"? ?plot.default panel.first: an expression to be evaluated after the plot axes are set up but before any plotting takes place. This can be useful for drawing background grids or scatterplot smooths. hth, Mat

Re: [R] call function immediately before plot.new()

See: ?frame e.g. setHook("plot.new", function(...) cat("Starting plot\n")) On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Jake Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to be able to call a custom function automatically before > plot.new() is called (more specifically, before a new pl

[R] call function immediately before plot.new()

Hi all, I would like to be able to call a custom function automatically before plot.new() is called (more specifically, before a new plot is created on the current graphics device). Recently I've been poking around in the help files of some of the low(er) level plotting functions, and I seem to r