Magick Graphics Device
Graphics device that produces a Magick image. Can either be used like a regular
device for making plots, or alternatively via image_draw
to open a device
which draws onto an existing image using pixel coordinates. The latter is vectorized,
i.e. drawing operations are applied to each frame in the image.
image_graph( width = 800, height = 600, bg = "white", pointsize = 12, res = 72, clip = TRUE, antialias = TRUE ) image_draw(image, pointsize = 12, res = 72, antialias = TRUE, ...) image_capture()
width |
in pixels |
height |
in pixels |
bg |
background color |
pointsize |
size of fonts |
res |
resolution in pixels |
clip |
enable clipping in the device. Because clipping can slow things down a lot, you can disable it if you don't need it. |
antialias |
TRUE/FALSE: enables anti-aliasing for text and strokes |
image |
an existing image on which to start drawing |
... |
additional device parameters passed to plot.window such as
|
The device is a relatively recent feature of the package. It should support all operations but there might still be small inaccuracies. Also it is a bit slower than some of the other devices, in particular for rendering text and clipping. Hopefully this can be optimized in the next version.
By default image_draw
sets all margins to 0 and uses graphics coordinates to
match image size in pixels (width x height) where (0,0)
is the top left corner.
Note that this means the y axis increases from top to bottom which is the opposite
of typical graphics coordinates. You can override all this by passing custom
xlim
, ylim
or mar
values to image_draw
.
The image_capture
function returns the current device as an image. This only
works if the current device is a magick device or supports dev.capture.
# Regular image frink <- image_read("https://jeroen.github.io/images/frink.png") # Produce image using graphics device fig <- image_graph(res = 96) ggplot2::qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, colour = cyl) dev.off() # Combine out <- image_composite(fig, frink, offset = "+70+30") print(out) # Or paint over an existing image img <- image_draw(frink) rect(20, 20, 200, 100, border = "red", lty = "dashed", lwd = 5) abline(h = 300, col = 'blue', lwd = '10', lty = "dotted") text(10, 250, "Hoiven-Glaven", family = "monospace", cex = 4, srt = 90) palette(rainbow(11, end = 0.9)) symbols(rep(200, 11), seq(0, 400, 40), circles = runif(11, 5, 35), bg = 1:11, inches = FALSE, add = TRUE) dev.off() print(img) # Vectorized example with custom coordinates earth <- image_read("https://jeroen.github.io/images/earth.gif") img <- image_draw(earth, xlim = c(0,1), ylim = c(0,1)) rect(.1, .1, .9, .9, border = "red", lty = "dashed", lwd = 5) text(.5, .9, "Our planet", cex = 3, col = "white") dev.off() print(img)
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