Copy R plot to clipboard with custom size
clipboard, graphics, r, rstudio, windows
Solution
The best way would be to be able to control the size in Rstudio, but as you have found out yourself from the Rstudio-website, Rstudio doesn't support that. The following code saves your plot to wmf. There is also a workaround to a save to bitmap, which involves some clicking, but at least you don't have to specify the size any more:
data(mtcars)
windows(800, 600, pointsize = 12) #opens a separate window with the size you want
hist(mtcars$mpg) #draw to this (active) window
savePlot("clipboard", type="wmf") #saves plot to WMF
Unfortunately, it seems to be impossible to save to `jpg` format to the clipboard. You can copy it to a bitmap by going to this window, click `CTRL-C` and the graph is on the clipboard as bitmap with 800:600.
EDIT: The `windows` command only works on Windows. For Mac, it should be replaced by: `quartz(width=8,height=6,pointsize=12,dpi=100)` (width/height in inches!)
For linux try `x11(width=8,height=6,pointsize=12,dpi=100)` (untested).
Problem
Is there a way to get R / RStudio to copy a plot to the clipboard with a custom size? RStudio has this function, but you have to define the size everytime and there is some extra clicking which I am sure is avoidable. I tried my best with saving as jpeg or else with `file="clipboard"` and then - after plotting - `dev.off()`. No error messages, but also nothing in the clipboard. Here is an example: ``` data(mtcars) jpeg(file = "clipboard",width = 800, height = 600, units = "px", pointsize = 12, quality = 100, bg = "white", res = NA, family = "", restoreConsole = T) hist(mtcars$mpg) dev.off() ``` Any ideas on how this can be achieved?