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<h2>Edit the Description of a Grid Graphical Object</h2>


<h3>Description</h3>

<p>
Changes the value of one of the slots of a grob
and redraws the grob.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
grid.edit(gPath, ..., strict = FALSE, grep = FALSE, global = FALSE,
          allDevices = FALSE, redraw = TRUE) 
editGrob(grob, gPath = NULL, ..., strict = FALSE, grep = FALSE,
         global = FALSE) 
</pre>


<h3>Arguments</h3>

<table summary="R argblock">
<tr valign="top"><td><code>grob</code></td>
<td>
A grob object.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>...</code></td>
<td>
Zero or more named arguments specifying new slot values.</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td><code>gPath</code></td>
<td>
A gPath object. For <code>grid.edit</code> this
specifies a grob on the display list.  For <code>editGrob</code> this
specifies a descendant of the specified grob. </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>redraw</code></td>
<td>
A logical value to indicate whether to redraw the grob. </td></tr>
</table>

<h3>Details</h3>

<p>
<code>editGrob</code> copies the specified grob and returns a modified
grob.
</p>
<p>
<code>grid.edit</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>
<p>
Both functions call <code>editDetails</code> to allow a grob to perform
custom actions and <code>validDetails</code> to check that the modified grob
is still coherent.
</p>


<h3>Value</h3>

<p>
<code>editGrob</code> returns a grob object;  <code>grid.edit</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.add.html">addGrob</a></code>, <code><a href="grid.remove.html">removeGrob</a></code>.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
grid.newpage()
grid.xaxis(name = "xa", vp = viewport(width=.5, height=.5))
grid.edit("xa", gp = gpar(col="red"))
# won't work because no ticks (at is NULL)
try(grid.edit(gPath("xa", "ticks"), gp = gpar(col="green")))
grid.edit("xa", at = 1:4/5)
# Now it should work
try(grid.edit(gPath("xa", "ticks"), gp = gpar(col="green")))
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