Hi
Wolfgang Huber wrote:> Hi,
>
> I am finding the recently added [1] functionality of embedding raster
> images into plots on R devices very useful! Thanks to Paul Murrell and
> others for providing that. I noted that in
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/grDevices/src/devPS.c
> a macro is defined: #define MAX_RASTERS 64, and consequently, I get
>
> Error in grid.Call.graphics("L_raster", x$raster, x$x, x$y,
x$width,
> x$height, :
> Too many raster images
>
> even for relatively innocent graphics, such as extensions of [2] (which
> I made with Bioconductor's "splots" package). Besides that, I
imagine
> that raster images could be useful as 'glyphs' in various types of
plots.
>
> Besides the not so helpful option of patching that macro in my private
> copy of R, is there an intention to extend this functionality to
> accommodate for larger plots more generally?
A simple solution (given the current implementation) would be to allow
the user to specify the max number of raster images when starting a PDF
file, e.g., ...
pdf("plotwithlotsofimages.pdf", maxRaster=1024)
Would that suffice?
Paul
> [1] http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html
> [2] http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~huber/pub/Druggable_ratio_1_before.pdf
>
> Thank you and best wishes,
> Wolfgang
>
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