Re: [Rd] gpar fill and transparency on devices

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi The help page for Working with Viewports (e.g., pushViewport()) has a brief mention when talking about the ROOT viewport ... The viewport tree always has a single root viewport (created by the system) which corresponds to the entire device (and default graphical parameter settings).

Re: [Rd] gpar fill and transparency on devices

2010-08-05 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Thanks for pointing this out. I do have the book, unfortunately I left it abroad this year. I would think that such brief mention in ?gpar could be useful (because that's where one first looks for gpar() defaults --- which are not listed). Best regards, baptiste On 6 August 2010 00:54,

[Rd] gpar fill and transparency on devices

2010-08-04 Thread baptiste auguie
Dear list, I'm puzzled by the graphical output in the following example, library(grid) foo - function(){ grid.rect(gp=gpar(fill=black)) print(get.gpar()$fill) grid.rect(width=0.2,height=0.2) } png(test.png, bg = transparent) foo() dev.off() png(test1.png, bg = white) foo() dev.off()