Dear All, [I'd already sent this message earlier (Apr 6) but as I had no response and I still see that it is the case in R1.5 I thought I'd try again] I recently encountered a problem (actually missed some data) because "white" is one of colours in the "default" palette and that does not show up to well on my transparent (on white background). Of course it is easily fixed but I think white should not be a default colour.> palette("default") > palette()[1] "black" "red" "green3" "blue" "cyan" "magenta" "yellow" [8] "white"> par()$bg[1] "transparent">> version_ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch x86 os Win32 system x86, Win32 status major 1 minor 4.1 year 2002 month 01 day 30 language R Cheers, Robert Cunningham -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi> [I'd already sent this message earlier (Apr 6) but as I had no response > and I still see that it is the case in R1.5 I thought I'd try again] > > I recently encountered a problem (actually missed some data) because > "white" is one of colours in the "default" palette and that does not > show up to well on my transparent (on white background). Of course it is > > easily fixed but I think white should not be a default colour. > > > palette("default") > > palette() > [1] "black" "red" "green3" "blue" "cyan" "magenta" "yellow" > > [8] "white" > > par()$bg > [1] "transparent"Apologies for not responding to your first email on this topic. I think there is fairly general agreement that the default colour palette that R provides is not terribly clever, and having "white" as one of the defaults is possibly the least clever part :) We are currently discussing the possibility of providing some more sensible default palettes, but these are a little way off yet. In the meantime, are there any objections to changing "white" to "grey" in the default palette? Paul -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._