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How can I get the screen resolution in R

How can I get screen resolution (height, width) in pixels?

Solution

  • You could use commad-line interface to WMI

    > system("wmic desktopmonitor get screenheight")
ScreenHeight  
900

    You could capture result with system

    (scr_width <- system("wmic desktopmonitor get screenwidth", intern=TRUE))
# [1] "ScreenWidth  \r" "1440         \r" "\r"
(scr_height <- system("wmic desktopmonitor get screenheight", intern=TRUE))
# [1] "ScreenHeight  \r" "900           \r" "\r"

    With multiple screens, the output is, e.g., 

    [1] "ScreenWidth  \r" "1600         \r" "1600         \r" ""

    We want all but the first and last values, converted to numbers

    as.numeric(c(
  scr_width[-c(1, length(scr_width))], 
  scr_height[-c(1, length(scr_height))]
))
# [1] 1440  900