[R] overwrite title

[Uwe Ligges]

Carl Witthoft wrote:
> I have played with overwriting text on charts by using 'white' text and 
> various other tricks.
> As David W. said, there's usually a slight ghost left behind.
> 
> My recommendation would be first and foremost to set up a miniscript to 
> regenerate your plot, and change the title text to whatever you really 
> want, rather than hacking the display via overwrites.
> 
> Second, you might want to draw a borderless box )with fill color equal 
> to your chart background) over the existing text, then write the new title.
>


Which is suboptimal given you want to produce some file, because you 
will find all the elements (old title, box, etc.) in the reslting 
postscript / PDF or whatever file (except bitmaps)...

Uwe Ligges



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