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.
Usage
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()Arguments
- 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
xlim,ylim, ormar.
Details
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.
Examples
# 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)
#> Warning: `qplot()` was deprecated in ggplot2 3.4.0.
dev.off()
#> agg_record_1727935000 
#>                     2 
# Combine
out <- image_composite(fig, frink, offset = "+70+30")
print(out)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 7
#>   format width height colorspace matte filesize density
#>   <chr>  <int>  <int> <chr>      <lgl>    <int> <chr>  
#> 1 PNG      800    600 sRGB       TRUE         0 96x96  
# 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()
#> agg_record_1727935000 
#>                     2 
print(img)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 7
#>   format width height colorspace matte filesize density
#>   <chr>  <int>  <int> <chr>      <lgl>    <int> <chr>  
#> 1 PNG      220    445 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
# \donttest{
# 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()
#> agg_record_1727935000 
#>                     2 
print(img)
#> # A tibble: 44 × 7
#>    format width height colorspace matte filesize density
#>    <chr>  <int>  <int> <chr>      <lgl>    <int> <chr>  
#>  1 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  2 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  3 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  4 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  5 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  6 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  7 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  8 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#>  9 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#> 10 GIF      400    400 sRGB       TRUE         0 72x72  
#> # ℹ 34 more rows
# }
