R: Class "Picture"

Picture-class {grImport} | R Documentation

## Class "Picture"

### Description

A collection of paths (polylines or polygons) that together describe a picture.

### Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form `new("Picture", ...)`. ~~ describe objects here ~~

### Slots

`paths`:

  A list of objects of class `"PictureStroke"` (polylines) or `"PictureFill"` (polygons).

`summary`:

  Object of class `"PictureSummary"`

### Methods

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  `signature(x = "Picture")`: subset the paths of a picture to produce a new picture (includeing a new, updated summary).

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  `signature(x = "Picture")`: extract either a single path or, more usefully, the sub-paths of a `"PictureText"` object, to produce a new picture (includeing a new, updated summary).

grobify

  `signature(object = "Picture")`: convert a picture into a grid grob (for use as a one-off image).

symbolize

  `signature(object = "Picture")`: convert a picture into a grid grob (for use as a plotting symbol).

### Author(s)

Paul Murrell

### See Also

`readPicture`, `grid.picture`, `grid.symbols` and `PictureStroke-class` `PictureFill-class` `PictureSummary-class`.

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