renderPlot: Plot Output

Description

Renders a reactive plot that is suitable for assigning to an output slot.

Usage

renderPlot(expr, width = "auto", height = "auto", ...,
    env = parent.frame(), quoted = FALSE, func = NULL)

Arguments

expr

An expression that generates a plot.

width

The width of the rendered plot, in pixels; or 'auto' to use the offsetWidth of the HTML element that is bound to this plot. You can also pass in a function that returns the width in pixels or 'auto'; in the

height

The height of the rendered plot, in pixels; or 'auto' to use the offsetHeight of the HTML element that is bound to this plot. You can also pass in a function that returns the width in pixels or 'auto'; in th

...

Arguments to be passed through to png. These can be used to set the width, height, background color, etc.

env

The environment in which to evaluate expr.

quoted

Is expr a quoted expression (with quote())? This is useful if you want to save an expression in a variable.

func

A function that generates a plot (deprecated; use expr instead).

Details

The corresponding HTML output tag should be div or img and have the CSS class name shiny-plot-output.

For output, it will try to use the following devices, in this order: quartz (via png), then CairoPNG, and finally png. This is in order of quality of output. Notably, plain png output on Linux and Windows may not antialias some point shapes, resulting in poor quality output.