R help - Oct 2002 - HOW to resize existing graphics window??

Sorry for newbie question, but i havent find the way to
resize existing graphics window from r console. Of course,
i can do it by dragging window borders and i can 
set up size of the device (window) if i call
windows(width,height)
but is it really impossible to resize existing window??
how i can do this?
i am using R 1.6.0 on Microsoft Windows 2000 OS
Thanks for your help




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There is no way to resize an existing graphics window from the command
line on any of the R graphics platforms, and no one has ever asked for
this before.  Why do you want to do it?

It would not be very difficult to implement, so if you would like to
contribute the code, please do so.


On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, [koi8-r] .......... wrote:
> Sorry for newbie question, but i havent find the way to
> resize existing graphics window from r console. Of course,
> i can do it by dragging window borders and i can
> set up size of the device (window) if i call
> windows(width,height)
> but is it really impossible to resize existing window??
> how i can do this?
> i am using R 1.6.0 on Microsoft Windows 2000 OS
> Thanks for your help
>
>
>
>
>
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If you need to redimension the graph window before drawing a new graph with
different requirements of the previous one, the quick and easy answer is to
close the previous graph window and to create a new one with the desired
dimensions. For instance:

windows(width=6, height=4)
graph1 <- dev.cur()
plot(rnorm(50, rnorm(50))

# If you want to change the size of graph1 before drawing a new plot:
dev.off(graph1)
graph1 <- windows(width=5, height=5)
hist(rnorm(200))

Best,

Philippe Grosjean
>On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, [koi8-r] .......... wrote:
>> Sorry for newbie question, but i havent find the way to
>> resize existing graphics window from r console. Of course,
>> i can do it by dragging window borders and i can
>> set up size of the device (window) if i call
>> windows(width,height)
>> but is it really impossible to resize existing window??
>> how i can do this?
>> i am using R 1.6.0 on Microsoft Windows 2000 OS
>> Thanks for your help
Prof. B. Ripley replied:
>There is no way to resize an existing graphics window from the command
>line on any of the R graphics platforms, and no one has ever asked for
>this before.  Why do you want to do it?
>It would not be very difficult to implement, so if you would like to
>contribute the code, please do so.




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