| png {grDevices} | R Documentation |
A graphics device for JPEG or PNG format bitmap files.
jpeg(filename = "Rplot%03d.jpeg", width = 480, height = 480,
pointsize = 12, quality = 75, bg = "white", res = NA, ...)
png(filename = "Rplot%03d.png", width = 480, height = 480,
pointsize = 12, bg = "white", res = NA, ...)
filename |
the name of the output file.
The page number is substituted if a C integer format is included in
the character string, as in the default. (The result must be less
than PATH_MAX characters long, and may be truncated if not.
See postscript for further details.) Tilde expansion
is performed where supported by the platform. |
width |
the width of the device in pixels. |
height |
the height of the device in pixels. |
pointsize |
the default pointsize of plotted text, interpreted at 72 dpi, so one point is approximately one pixel. |
quality |
the ‘quality’ of the JPEG image, as a percentage. Smaller values will give more compression but also more degradation of the image. |
bg |
default background colour. |
res |
The nominal resolution in dpi which will be recorded in the bitmap file, if a positive integer. |
... |
additional arguments to the underlying
X11 device. |
Plots in PNG and JPEG format can easily be converted to many other bitmap formats, and both can be displayed in modern web browsers. The PNG format is lossless and is best for line diagrams and blocks of solid colour. The JPEG format is lossy, but may be useful for image plots, for example.
png supports transparent backgrounds: use bg = "transparent".
Not all PNG viewers render files with transparency correctly.
When transparency is in use a very light grey is used as the
background and so will appear as transparent if used in the plot.
This allows opaque white to be used, as on the example.
R can be compiled without support for either or both of these devices: this will be reported if you attempt to use them on a system where they are not supported. They may not be usable unless the X11 display is available to the owner of the R process.
By default no resolution is recorded in the file. Readers will often assume a nominal resolution of 72dpi when none is recorded. As resolutions in PNG files are recorded in pixels/metre, the dpi value will be changed slightly.
For graphics parameters that make use of dimensions in inches, a resolution of 96dpi is assumed.
png will use a palette if there are less than 256 colours on
the page, and record a 24-bit RGB file otherwise.
A plot device is opened: nothing is returned to the R interpreter.
Note that the width and height are in pixels not inches.
A warning will be issued if both are less than 20.
If you plot more than one page on one of these devices and do not
include something like %d for the sequence number in
file, the file will contain the last page plotted.
These are based on the X11 device, so the additional
arguments to that device work, but are rarely appropriate. The
colour handling will be that of the X11 device in use.
Guido Masarotto and Brian Ripley
capabilities to see if these devices are
supported by this build of R.
bitmap provides an alternative way to generate PNG and
JPEG plots that does not depend on accessing the X11 display but does
depend on having GhostScript installed. (Devices GDD in
CRAN package GDD and CairoJPEG / CairoPNG in CRAN
package Cairo are alternatives using several other additional
pieces of software.)
## these examples will work only if the devices are available ## and the X11 display is available. ## copy current plot to a (large) PNG file ## Not run: dev.print(png, file="myplot.png", width=1024, height=768) png(file="myplot.png", bg="transparent") plot(1:10) rect(1, 5, 3, 7, col="white") dev.off() jpeg(file="myplot.jpeg") example(rect) dev.off() ## End(Not run)