R: Draw to a PPM file

agg_ppm {ragg} | R Documentation

## Draw to a PPM file

### Description

The PPM (Portable Pixel Map) format defines one of the simplest storage formats available for image data. It is basically a raw 8bit RGB stream with a few bytes of information in the start. It goes without saying, that this file format is horribly inefficient and should only be used if you want to play around with a simple file format, or need a file-based image stream.

### Usage

    agg_ppm(
      filename = "Rplot%03d.ppm",
      width = 480,
      height = 480,
      units = "px",
      pointsize = 12,
      background = "white",
      res = 72,
      scaling = 1,
      bg
    )

### Arguments

`filename` | The name of the file. Follows the same semantics as the file naming in [grDevices::png()], meaning that you can provide a [sprintf()] compliant string format to name multiple plots (such as the default value)
`width, height` | The dimensions of the device
`units` | The unit 'width' and 'height' is measured in, in either pixels (''px'‘), inches ('’in'‘), millimeters ('’mm'‘), or centimeter ('’cm'').
`pointsize` | The default pointsize of the device in pt. This will in general not have any effect on grid graphics (including ggplot2) as text size is always set explicitly there.
`background` | The background colour of the device
`res` | The resolution of the device. This setting will govern how device dimensions given in inches, centimeters, or millimeters will be converted to pixels. Further, it will be used to scale text sizes and linewidths
`scaling` | A scaling factor to apply to the rendered line width and text size. Useful for getting the right dimensions at the resolution that you need. If e.g. you need to render a plot at 4000x3000 pixels for it to fit into a layout, but you find that the result appears to small, you can increase the 'scaling' argument to make everything appear bigger at the same resolution.
`bg` | Same as 'background' for compatibility with old graphic device APIs

### Examples

    file <- tempfile(fileext = '.ppm')
    agg_ppm(file)
    plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
    dev.off()

[Package ragg version 1.1.2 Index]