I was able to puzzle it out with the help of the book "R Graphics" (Murrell).
When par("bg") = "transparenent" one needs to use col="white", otherwise the
old code col=0 works correctly.The default for pdf and x11, the two I use, is transparent. Terry Therneau On 09/27/2012 08:48 AM, PIKAL Petr wrote:
Hi It seems that it still works. x<-c(3,7,7,3) y<-c(4,4,6,6) par(bg="pink") plot(1:10,1:10) polygon(x, y, border=TRUE, col=0)Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:37 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] erasing a polygon I'm updating some (very) old code, and one particular option of its plot method depends on a once-was-true trick polygon(x, y, border=TRUE, col=0) polygon(x, y, border=TRUE, density=0) would draw the polygon AND erase whatever was underneath it back to background color. Is there a reliable way to do this with the current R (standard graphics)? Terry Therneau PS For the inquiring, the routine is text.rpart with the fancy=T option, and the original target was the postscript driver on Splus 3.4. (I said it was old.) The plot.rpart routine draws the branches, and text.rpart then wants to lay down some ellipses, erasing what is underneath them. ______________________________________________ R-help@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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