Convert Viewport Location to Device Location

Description

These functions take a pair of unit objects and convert them to a pair of device locations (or dimensions) in inches (or native device coordinates).

Usage

deviceLoc(x, y, valueOnly = FALSE, device = FALSE)
deviceDim(w, h, valueOnly = FALSE, device = FALSE)

Arguments

Details

These functions differ from the functions like convertX() because they convert from the coordinate systems within a viewport to inches on the device (i.e., from one viewport to another) and because they only deal with pairs of values (locations or dimensions).

The functions like convertX() convert between different units within the same viewport and convert along a single dimension.

Value

A list with two components, both of which are unit object in inches (unless valueOnly is TRUE in which case both components are numeric).

Warning

The conversion is only valid for the current device size. If the device is resized then at least some conversions will become invalid.

Furthermore, the returned value only makes sense with respect to the entire device (i.e., within the context of the root viewport).

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

See Also

unit

Examples

## A tautology
grid.newpage()
pushViewport(viewport())
deviceLoc(unit(1, "inches"), unit(1, "inches"))

## Something less obvious
grid.newpage()
pushViewport(viewport(width=.5, height=.5))
grid.rect()
x <- unit(1, "in")
y <- unit(1, "in")
grid.circle(x, y, r=unit(2, "mm"))
loc <- deviceLoc(x, y)
loc
upViewport()
grid.circle(loc$x, loc$y, r=unit(1, "mm"), gp=gpar(fill="black"))

## Something even less obvious
grid.newpage()
pushViewport(viewport(width=.5, height=.5, angle=30))
grid.rect()
x <- unit(.2, "npc")
y <- unit(2, "in")
grid.circle(x, y, r=unit(2, "mm"))
loc <- deviceLoc(x, y)
loc
upViewport()
grid.circle(loc$x, loc$y, r=unit(1, "mm"), gp=gpar(fill="black"))