Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats: on Nostr: Does anyone know how to pass a PNG or JPG from R to stdout? At the moment I'm ...
Does anyone know how to pass a PNG or JPG from R to stdout? At the moment I'm creating a tempfile and returning the filename, but that's suboptimal and makes the code less clear.
R has `stdout()` but none of the `png()` or `jpg()` support writing to connection.
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