R plot without showing the graphic window

Question

I need to store a plot object in a variable. I know that I can do:

plot(rnorm(10))
obj = recordPlot()
replayPlot(obj)

But I don\'t want to

Answer 1

You can do that easily with ggplot2:

require(ggplot2)
data = data.frame(x = 1:100, y = rnorm(100))
p = ggplot(data) + geom_point(aes(x, y)) + theme_classic()
print(p) # this show the plot