Message-ID: <4272B31F.8030005@stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2005-04-29T22:20:15Z
From: Paul Murrell
Subject: grid and ps device (bg-color)
Hi
mkondrin wrote:
> Hello!
> Is it a bug or something?
> When I try to draw a grid-graphics on ps output background color is
> always transparent (with standard plot(...) this is not the case - the
> background is filled with ps.options()$bg color). What's wrong? Drawing
> a background grid.rect does not help - there is always small transparent
> margains along picture frame. Can this be fixed (I use R-2.0.1)?
Yes, it's a bug. Grid does not take appropriate notice of some
important initial device settings. A fix is on my todo list. In the
meantime, is the following workaround adequate (draw a filled rectangle
much larger than the device)?
grid.rect(width=2, height=2,
gp=gpar(fill=ps.options()$bg.color))
Paul
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