[R] Background color with jpeg and png devices

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Trent Piepho wrote:

> If I change the background color of a plot, with par(bg="red") for example, I
> get a plot with a red background when I use the postscript or X11 devices. 
> With the png or jpeg devices, the background is white. 
> 
> Is this the intended behavior, or a bug?  Is there anyway to get a non-white
> background with the png device?  I'm using R-1.1.0 on Linux.

A bit of both (as I never had a need for other than white backgrounds).
But if people want it (evidently they do) it is a bug (Unix only as it
seems correct on Windows). We will fix it in due course, but for now I
believe that the bitmap device does pick up the background colour
and can produce png or jpeg.

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