Capture a plot as a PNG file. — plotPNG • shiny

The PNG graphics device used is determined in the following order:

If the ragg package is installed (and the shiny.useragg is not set to FALSE), then use ragg::agg_png().
If a quartz device is available (i.e., capabilities("aqua") is TRUE), then use png(type = "quartz").
If the Cairo package is installed (and the shiny.usecairo option is not set to FALSE), then use Cairo::CairoPNG().
Otherwise, use grDevices::png(). In this case, Linux and Windows may not antialias some point shapes, resulting in poor quality output.

plotPNG(
  func,
  filename = tempfile(fileext = ".png"),
  width = 400,
  height = 400,
  res = 72,
  ...
)

Arguments

func: A function that generates a plot.
filename: The name of the output file. Defaults to a temp file with extension .png.
width: Width in pixels.
height: Height in pixels.
res: Resolution in pixels per inch. This value is passed to the graphics device. Note that this affects the resolution of PNG rendering in R; it won't change the actual ppi of the browser.
...: Arguments to be passed through to the graphics device. These can be used to set the width, height, background color, etc.

A path to the newly generated PNG file.

A NULL value provided to width or height is ignored (i.e., the default width or height of the graphics device is used).