R help - Mar 2004 - White background in PS pictures

Hi all

I am using R to produce postscript pictures via the
postscript  command.  I have never had any problems...
until now, when I want to inlcude my .ps file is a
LaTeX document *without* a white background.  (If
it's important, I'm using the  prosper  class with
the  whitecross option, so the background in blue.)

I would like my .ps file to have a white background.
If I read the help correctly (?postscript), this is
achieved using  bg="white", either in the call to
postscript  or via  ps.options.

However, whenever I do so, and include my .ps
file in my LaTeX document, it appears transparent
(I see the blue background, and the black text on the
figure is hard to read.)

I have read the help (at least what I thought was relevant)
and searched the mail archives but can't find any
reference to this problem.

Help appreciated.

P.

 > version
          _
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    1
minor    7.1
year     2003
month    06
day      16
language R


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Peter Dunn wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I am using R to produce postscript pictures via the
> postscript  command.  I have never had any problems...
> until now, when I want to inlcude my .ps file is a
> LaTeX document *without* a white background.  (If
> it's important, I'm using the  prosper  class with
> the  whitecross option, so the background in blue.)
> 
> I would like my .ps file to have a white background.
> If I read the help correctly (?postscript), this is
> achieved using  bg="white", either in the call to
> postscript  or via  ps.options.
> 
> However, whenever I do so, and include my .ps
> file in my LaTeX document, it appears transparent
> (I see the blue background, and the black text on the
> figure is hard to read.)
> 
> I have read the help (at least what I thought was relevant)
> and searched the mail archives but can't find any
> reference to this problem.
> 
> Help appreciated.
> 
> P.
It works for me as follows:

postscript(.....your.settings.....)
par(bg = "white")
plot(.....anything.....)
dev.off()

if it doesn't for you, you might want to try out a more recent version 
of R (R-1.8.1 is recent, the R-1.9.0 beta for people who want to help to 
make R-1.9.0 as stable as possible).


Uwe Ligges
>  > version
>          _
> platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch     i686
> os       linux-gnu
> system   i686, linux-gnu
> status
> major    1
> minor    7.1
> year     2003
> month    06
> day      16
> language R
> 
>