Save data from a gam plot without actually plotting the data?

Question

Is there a convenient way to extract the data from a gam plot, without actually plotting the gam object?

Here's a dummy example. plot.data has the data I want in it, but I don't want the plot window to be affected.

library(mgcv)    
x=1:10000/1000
y = sin(x)+rnorm(10000,sd=2)
m = gam(y~s(x))
plot.data<-plot(m,plot=F)

Answer 1

It doesn't look like plot.gam has the option for not plotting. But you could try

plot.data <- {
    dev.new()
    res <- plot(m)
    dev.off()
    res
}

or possibly

plot.data <- {
    pdf(NULL)
    res <- plot(m)
    invisible(dev.off())
    res
}