Re: [Rd] gpar fill and transparency on devices

2010-08-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi On 6/08/2010 5:34 p.m., baptiste auguie wrote: 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).

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, Pau

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)."

[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