Control Plot Devices (Matlab Style) — figure • pracma

Open, activate, and close grahics devices.

figure(figno, title = "")

Arguments

figno: (single) number of plot device.
title: title of the plot device; not yet used.

Details

The number of a graphics device cannot be 0 or 1. The function will work for the operating systems Mac OS, MS Windows, and most Linux systems.

If figno is negative and a graphics device with that number does exist, it will be closed.

Value

No return value, except when a device of that number does not exist, in which case it returns a list of numbers of open graphics devices.

Note

Does not bring the activated graphics device in front.

See also

dev.set, dev.off, dev.list

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
figure()
figure(-2)
} # }