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A general description is here.
Options "graphics.record", "windowsBuffered", "xpinch" and "ypinch" have been replaced by a function windows.options() to set the defaults for the arguments of the windows() device.
The windows() device has a new argument 'title' to set the title of the window.
The windows() device no longer sizes the window to allow for scrollbars that might be needed for rescale="fixed", which means the default size really is 7 inches square and not 7.177 inches.
Saving a graphics window containing semi-transparent colours to BMP, JPEG or PNG now works.
The bmp(), jpeg() and png() devices support semi-transparent colours. See ?png for use with transparent backgrounds.
Specifying 'res' to these devices now scales the text size and line width.
Drawing circles is now done with an integer diameter rather than radius and so can be more accurate for small circles. You can see this in the pairs plot and coplot examples in demo(graphics) which on a 96dpi system use diameter 5 rather than radius 2.
There is a new tiff() graphics device, and an option to save to TIFF from the graphics device menu and in savePlot(). (The only advantage of (simple) TIFF over PNG is that some journals are unable to cope with formats from as recently as 1996.)
savePlot() no longer automatically adds an extension to the filename.
Options "graphics.record", "windowsBuffered", "xpinch" and
"ypinch" have been replaced by a function windows.options() to
set the defaults for the arguments of the windows() device.
The windows() device has a new argument 'title' to set the
title of the window.
The windows() device no longer sizes the window to allow for
scrollbars that might be needed for rescale="fixed", which
means the default size really is 7 inches square and not 7.177
inches.
Saving a graphics window containing semi-transparent colours
to BMP, JPEG or PNG now works.
The bmp(), jpeg() and png() devices support semi-transparent
colours. See ?png for use with transparent backgrounds.
Specifying 'res' to these devices now scales the text size and line width.
Drawing circles is now done with an integer diameter rather
than radius and so can be more accurate for small circles.
You can see this in the pairs plot and coplot examples in
demo(graphics) which on a 96dpi system use diameter 5 rather
than radius 2.
There is a new tiff() graphics device, and an option to save to
TIFF from the graphics device menu and in savePlot(). (The
only advantage of (simple) TIFF over PNG is that some journals
are unable to cope with formats from as recently as the 1990s.)
savePlot() no longer automatically adds an extension to the filename.