[R] Getting rid of borders on semi-transparent plotting symbols

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Dieter Menne wrote:

> Karl Ove Hufthammer <Karl.Hufthammer <at> math.uib.no> writes:
>
>>
>> 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")
>>
> Same R version, Window, the problem turn up on-screen, but not when I do
>
> pdf()
> plot(0, 0, pch=19, col="#FF000022")
> dev.off()

This is subtle -- both devices are doing what they are documented to do. 
E.g. see p.538 of the PDF reference manual -- and BTW PDF viewers do not 
always follow the specification.  (That's not to say that they are doing 
what the graphics engine expects, because I cannot find that documented.
But then the first technical documentation of the device API is in the 'R 
Internals' manual for 2.7.0.)

But symbol 19 is asking to both stroke and fill the circle, and we first 
need to resolve if that is the intention.  I've asked the designer for 
clarification.

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