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<h2>Remove a Grid Graphical Object</h2>


<h3>Description</h3>

<p>
Remove a grob from a gTree or a descendant of a gTree.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
grid.remove(gPath, warn = TRUE, strict  =  FALSE, grep = FALSE,
            global = FALSE, allDevices = FALSE, redraw = TRUE)

removeGrob(gTree, gPath, strict = FALSE, grep = FALSE,
           global = FALSE, warn = TRUE) 
</pre>


<h3>Arguments</h3>

<table summary="R argblock">
<tr valign="top"><td><code>gTree</code></td>
<td>
A gTree object.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>gPath</code></td>
<td>
A gPath object. For <code>grid.remove</code> this
specifies a gTree on the display list.  For <code>removeGrob</code> this
specifies a descendant of the specified gTree. </td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>strict</code></td>
<td>
A boolean indicating whether the gPath must be
matched exactly. </td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>grep</code></td>
<td>
A boolean indicating whether the <code>gPath</code> should
be treated as a regular expression.  Values are recycled across
elements of the <code>gPath</code> (e.g., <code>c(TRUE, FALSE)</code> means
that every odd element of the <code>gPath</code> will be treated as
a regular expression).
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>global</code></td>
<td>
A boolean indicating whether the function should affect
just the first match of the <code>gPath</code>, or whether all matches
should be affected.
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>allDevices</code></td>
<td>
A boolean indicating whether all open devices
should
be searched for matches, or just the current device.
NOT YET IMPLEMENTED.
</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>warn</code></td>
<td>
A logical to indicate whether failing to find the
specified grob should trigger an error.  </td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>redraw</code></td>
<td>
A logical value to indicate whether to redraw the grob. </td></tr>
</table>

<h3>Details</h3>

<p>
<code>removeGrob</code> copies the specified grob and returns a modified
grob.
</p>
<p>
<code>grid.remove</code> destructively modifies a grob on the display list.
If <code>redraw</code>
is <code>TRUE</code> it then redraws everything to reflect the change.
</p>


<h3>Value</h3>

<p>
<code>removeGrob</code> returns a grob object;  <code>grid.remove</code> returns
<code>NULL</code>.</p>

<h3>Author(s)</h3>

<p>
Paul Murrell
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p>
<code><a href="grid.grob.html">grob</a></code>, <code><a href="grid.get.html">getGrob</a></code>,
<code><a href="grid.remove.html">removeGrob</a></code>, <code><a href="grid.remove.html">removeGrob</a></code>.
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