R version 2.7.0 RC (2008-04-20 r45403) When using semi-transparent filled plotting symbols, the border of the symbol has a different (darker) colour than the interior:
plot(0, 0, pch=19, col="#FF000022") (Saving this as a PDF and looking at it magnified may make it easier to see.) This is pretty annoying, since when plotting partially overlapping points, the border colour dominates, making the colour of overlapping points more saturated than they should be. This isn't so much of a problem when using very large values of 'cex', since the width of the border is constant, and doesn't vary with cex. But with small values (and the default value) of cex, it's very visible. I thought this maybe could be solved by using pch=21 instead of pch=19, and setting the 'bg' colour to the same colour as 'col', like this. plot(0, 0, pch=21, col="#FF000022", bg="#FF000022") But this has no effect. 'bg' *does* set the background (interior) colour (this is easy to check by using a different colour), but not the border colour, which is determined by 'col' alone. So I guess in theory I can get the border and interior the same colour by setting 'col' to a ligher colour than the one I actually want to use, and then set the 'bg' colour to the one I want to use. But how should I select the lighter colour so that the darker version (i.e., the border colour) is the one I want? Frankly, the current behaviour feels much more like a bug than a feature. If I set pch=19, I want a completely filled circle, even if my chosen colour is partially transparent. I'm using R version 2.7.0 RC (2008-04-20 r45403) i686-pc-linux-gnu -- Karl Ove Hufthammer ______________________________________________ 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.
