[R] Greyed text in the background of a plot

[Mark Difford]

Hi Yihui,

That's good, I like it! Very nice site.

Regards, Mark.


Yihui Xie wrote:
> 
> Well, his talk seems to have attracted a lot of people... You may
> simply use gray text in your plot. Here is an example:
> 
> ##################################################
> x = runif(10)
> y = runif(10)
> z = runif(10, 0.1, 0.3)
> cl = rgb(runif(10), runif(10), runif(10), 0.5) # transparent colors!
> par(mar = c(4, 4, 0.2, 0.2))
> for (i in 1917:2007) {
>    x = x + rnorm(10, 0, 0.02)
>    y = y + rnorm(10, 0, 0.02)
>    z = abs(z + rnorm(10, 0, 0.05))
>    plot(x, y, xlim = c(0, 1), ylim = c(0, 1), type = "n", panel.first = {
>        grid()
>        text(0.5, 0.5, i, cex = 5, col = "gray") # here is the text!
>    })
>    symbols(x, y, circles = z, add = T, bg = cl, inches = 0.8)
>    box()
>    Sys.sleep(0.2)
> }
> ##################################################
> 
> Not difficult at all, right? :)
> 
> BTW, if you are interested in such animations, you may as well take a
> look at my "animation" package:
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/animation/index.html
> http://animation.yihui.name/
> 
> Regards,
> Yihui
> - Show quoted text -
> 
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Agustin Lobo <aloboaleu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there any way of having a greyed ("ghosted") text
>> (i.e, 2006) in the background of a plot?
>> I'm making a dynamic plot and would like to show the
>> year of each time step as a big greyed text in the background.
>>
>> (the idea comes from Hans Rosling video:
>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080&sourceid=searchfeed
>> )
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Agus
>> --
>> Dr. Agustin Lobo
>> Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC)
>> LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n
>> 08028 Barcelona
>> Spain
>> Tel. 34 934095410
>> Fax. 34 934110012
>> email: Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es
>> http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster
>>
> 
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