On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Paul Murrell wrote: > hadley wickham wrote: > > I've also noticed the behaviour of grid.rect() has changed in 2.2.0. > > Before the fill defaulted to transparent, but now it defaults to > > white. > > > The initial value of the 'gp' settings for the ROOT grid viewport has > changed in 2.2.0 (see grid/doc/changes.txt). Before it defaulted to > transparent, but now it defaults to whatever the 'bg' is for the current > device (on some, e.g., png() this is "white", though I'm not sure why > right now)
Because many (maybe even most) png viewers do not handle transparency correctly. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
