title: Make R Studio plots only show up in new window
body: <p>When using R Studio, I usually just work with an .R file stacked on top of the Console. I keep the other panes (Environment, History, Files, etc) hidden.</p>
  
  <p>But whenever I plot a graph, the other panes automatically pop out of the side bar to show me the Plot pane. Because I work on a laptop, this makes everything too small to see. By clicking the <em>Zoom</em> button on the Plots pane, I can get the plot also show up in a new window, but does not prevent the Plots pane from showing up.</p>
  
  <p><em>Is there a way to "disable" the Plots pane in R Studio, and force plots show up in a new window?</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; sessionInfo()
  R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
  Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
  Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
  
  locale:
  [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
  [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
  [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
  [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
  [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
  
  attached base packages:
  [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils    
  [5] datasets  methods   base     
  
  other attached packages:
  [1] ggplot2_2.2.1     jsonlite_1.4     
  [3] data.table_1.10.4
  
  loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
   [1] labeling_0.3     colorspace_1.2-6
   [3] scales_0.4.1     lazyeval_0.2.0  
   [5] plyr_1.8.4       tools_3.2.3     
   [7] gtable_0.1.2     tibble_1.3.0    
   [9] curl_2.5         Rcpp_0.12.10    
  [11] grid_3.2.3       munsell_0.4.2   
  &gt; 
  </code></pre>