[R-sig-Geo] add image to plot

[Ben Tupper]

Hi,

On Dec 11, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, James Rooney wrote:
> 
>> Hi Agus,
>> 
>> Eh perhaps not - is there a more suitable list ? I thought sticking logos into maps would be common enough practice here ? I'm not sure gimp is a solution since it also depends on ghostscript. I'm starting to tihnk Adobe Ilustrator is my only option - which is irritating since I don't have it.
> 
> You want to add an image for which you have either JPEG or EPS versions available to base R plots? If you convert your JPEG to PNM, use:
> 
> library(pixmap)
> ?"addlogo-methods"
> 
> Consider using locator() to provide the anchor for the logo.
> 

You might also find it easy to use the jpeg package.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jpeg/index.html

Cheers,
Ben

 



> Roger
> 
>> 
>> James
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Agustin Lobo [alobolistas at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 11 December 2013 12:42
>> To: James Rooney
>> Cc: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] add image to plot
>> 
>> James,
>> Are you sure this is the right list for this question?
>> I would rather use gimp for that purpose.
>> Agus
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, James Rooney <ROONEYJ4 at tcd.ie> wrote:
>>> Anyone got experience with grImport even ?
>>> I'm at my wits end with this. Think I'm going to have to just do it in photoshop or something after the fact.
>>> 
>>> James
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of James Rooney [ROONEYJ4 at tcd.ie]
>>> Sent: 09 December 2013 12:05
>>> To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] add image to plot
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I need to add a logo to a plot. I have the logo in eps and jpg formats though can convert it to something else if needed.
>>> My preference is to use the eps version since I am plotting my graphs to an eps file.
>>> However I'm having a problem - with grImport - it is not detecting all the features of the image (not picking up colours and missing internal features of plot.
>>> 
>>> My code is thus:
>>> 
>>> PostScriptTrace("LogoLarge.eps")
>>> logo<-readPicture("LogoLarge.eps.xml")
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know why it is not catching all features of the image ?
>>> Any other way of doing is ?
>>> 
>>> James
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Ben Tupper
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