[R] Howto Plot With Transparent Background

[Eik Vettorazzi]

if you not persist in using pdf, the emf format works very well with PPT 
and has a transparent background.
Its the way you copy&paste pdf-graphs form Acrobat to PPT which causes 
the solid (white) background - unfortunately ppt has no builtt in 
support for pdf-graphs.

By default pdfs have a transparent background, see ?pdf and there the bg 
part,
which can be proven by a minimal R+ LaTeX example

#R code
pdf("test.pdf")
plot(1,1)
dev.off()

#minimal tex example
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\pagecolor{green}
\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{test.pdf}
\end{document}

hth.


Gundala Viswanath schrieb:
> Is there a way to do it in R?
> Especially generating plot in EPS/PDF format.
>
> By transparent I mean clear (not white) background.
> I want to attached it to dark PPT slides.
>
> - Gundala Viswanath
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