Re: [R] Changing grid defaults
First I'd like to thank Ilaik and Paul for their responses. I seem to be getting what I need by using LaTeX's tikz package and including tikz=true in the options for the figure chunks using vcd, e.g., fig=true,tikz=true,width=5,height=5,echo=FALSE,results=hide= ... R commands ... @ I have actually used this before in other documents, but not for this purpose, so it didn't occurred to me to try it until Ilaik mentioned tikz in his message. FTR, I never could get successfully change the color defaults for grid, at least not for vcd graphics (again, this is easy to do for traditional R graphics in Sweave). In particular, when I took Paul's suggestion and added the line pushViewport(viewport(gp=gpar(col=yellow))) before the graphics command, I got no output, which didn't surprise me too much. Adding a popViewport() command produced an error message: Cannot pop the top-level viewport (grid and graphics output mixed?) I wasn't able to see how to get what I needed using the font commands in the article that Paul pointed to either, and I don't have time to pursue it any further right now. So I'm going to cut and run, and hope that the tikz approach will work out. Still, it would be nice (for me at least) if there was a full example somewhere showing how to change the grid defaults (foreground and background colors in particular) in an Sweave document in such a way that they stay changed throughout the document, particularly in a document that also uses traditional R graphics. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Changing grid defaults
You might want to check out package {tikzDevice} and it's
documentation. In essence you turn your R plots to tikz-pgf so they
can be naturally incorporated into a beamer presentation. Colors, bg,
fonts etc. can now be controlled in your main latex doc. I find it
much more convenient, and nicer when the plot annotations make use of
the same latex font rather than e.g. plotmath. Note, for grid graphics
you'll need to use print(yourplot) to the device.
Cheers
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Brett Presnell presn...@stat.ufl.edu wrote:
I'm trying to use the vcd package to produce mosaic plots for my class
notes, written in Sweave and using the LaTeX's beamer document class.
For projecting the notes in class, I use a dark background with light
foreground colors. It's easy enough to change the defaults for R's
standard graphics to match my color scheme (using the fg, col.axis,
col.lab, col.main, and col.sub parameter settings), but I can't figure
out how to do this with grid/strucplot/vcd.
From my experiments, I think that I might eventually figure out how to
change the colors of all the text in the mosaic plots to what I want
using arguments like 'gp_args = list(gp_labels = gpar(col = yellow)'
and 'gp_varnames = gpar(col = yellow)' (although I still haven't
figured out how to changed the color of the text on the legends), but
this is obviously not what I need. I have been reading all the
documentation I can find, but I still haven't figured this out, so an
answer accompanied by a reference to some line or the other in some
piece of documentation would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: [R] Changing grid defaults
Hi On 7/04/2012 2:43 a.m., Brett Presnell wrote: I'm trying to use the vcd package to produce mosaic plots for my class notes, written in Sweave and using the LaTeX's beamer document class. For projecting the notes in class, I use a dark background with light foreground colors. It's easy enough to change the defaults for R's standard graphics to match my color scheme (using the fg, col.axis, col.lab, col.main, and col.sub parameter settings), but I can't figure out how to do this with grid/strucplot/vcd. From my experiments, I think that I might eventually figure out how to change the colors of all the text in the mosaic plots to what I want using arguments like 'gp_args = list(gp_labels = gpar(col = yellow)' and 'gp_varnames = gpar(col = yellow)' (although I still haven't figured out how to changed the color of the text on the legends), but this is obviously not what I need. I have been reading all the documentation I can find, but I still haven't figured this out, so an answer accompanied by a reference to some line or the other in some piece of documentation would be greatly appreciated. You could push a 'grid' viewport with the desired defaults and then hopefully 'vcd' will pick those up as its defaults. The following example promises at least partial (if ugly) success ... library(vcd) pushViewport(viewport(gp=gpar(col=yellow))) mosaic(Titanic, newpage=FALSE) You can similarly set up font defaults. See Non-standard fonts in PostScript and PDF graphics in http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf for an example, plus also possibly http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/CM/CMR.html. Paul __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
