Is there a way to do it in R? Especially generating plot in EPS/PDF format. By transparent I mean clear (not white) background. I want to attached it to dark PPT slides. - Gundala Viswanath
with base graphics, par(bg=NA) see ?par Hope this helps, baptiste On 8 Apr 2009, at 12:54, Gundala Viswanath wrote:> Is there a way to do it in R? > Especially generating plot in EPS/PDF format. > > By transparent I mean clear (not white) background. > I want to attached it to dark PPT slides. > > - Gundala Viswanath > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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._____________________________ Baptiste Augui? School of Physics University of Exeter Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QL, UK Phone: +44 1392 264187 http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag
if you not persist in using pdf, the emf format works very well with PPT
and has a transparent background.
Its the way you copy&paste pdf-graphs form Acrobat to PPT which causes
the solid (white) background - unfortunately ppt has no builtt in
support for pdf-graphs.
By default pdfs have a transparent background, see ?pdf and there the bg
part,
which can be proven by a minimal R+ LaTeX example
#R code
pdf("test.pdf")
plot(1,1)
dev.off()
#minimal tex example
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{green}
\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{test.pdf}
\end{document}
hth.
Gundala Viswanath schrieb:> Is there a way to do it in R?
> Especially generating plot in EPS/PDF format.
>
> By transparent I mean clear (not white) background.
> I want to attached it to dark PPT slides.
>
> - Gundala Viswanath
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at 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.
>
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Eik Vettorazzi wrote, On 08.04.2009 15:08:> By default pdfs have a transparent background, see ?pdf and there the bg > part, > which can be proven by a minimal R+ LaTeX example > > #R code > pdf("test.pdf") > plot(1,1) > dev.off() > > #minimal tex example > \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} > \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} > \usepackage{graphicx} > \begin{document} > \pagecolor{green}I really like those bizarre green pages. Thanks for sharing. :-) Christof -- Christof Winter Bioinformatics Group Biotechnologisches Zentrum Technische Universit?t Dresden Tatzberg 47-51 01307 Dresden Germany