[Tikzdevice-bugs] tikz and grid/lines/axis?

[Charlie Sharpsteen]

Allright,

A fix for this just went out to CRAN in 0.6.1.  Turns out 0.6.0 got
created from a bad merge that introduced an error in the Vignette.
This error was preventing CRAN from building 0.6.0 binaries so we
needed to do an emergency release anyway.

Thanks again for reporting this bug Matthieu!

-Charlie

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Charlie Sharpsteen
<chuck at sharpsteen.net> wrote:
> Hi Matthieu,
>
> It appears you have found a bug.  What happens is that the call to
> tikz() opens a new .tex file and draws an invisible rectangle that is
> the size of the plotting canvas.  As Cameron mentioned, it looks like
> we figured R graphics functions would come along and fill in a
> background if they wanted some color.  We never noticed this wasn't
> happening because we mostly use our plots in reports that are printed
> out on white paper.
>
> I tried to find a workaround at the R level---but no luck so far as
> this stuff all happens at the C level.  For right now Cameron's
> suggestion is the only way I can think of to change the background
> color.  I will work on a fix for this issue and we will release a
> 0.6.1 to CRAN as soon as it is done as this is pretty major.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to try our package and the extra time to
> report this bug!
>
> -Charlie
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Matthieu Stigler
> <matthieu.stigler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to use tikzDevice for a quite complex plot, which has a grid,
>> adds axis, background color, and so on... However, the pdf I get looses much
>> of the information... Did I do something wrong? Did I miss some important
>> parameters/options?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Matthieu Stigler
>>
>> ## The plot:
>>  op<-par(bg=11,bty="n", cex=2, mar=c(3,4,1,2)+0.1)
>>  x <- runif(100)
>>  plot(x, las=1, yaxt="n",tcl=0, ann=F, type="l", lwd=2, col="blue")
>>  grid(col="white", lty="solid", nx=NA, ny=NULL, lwd=2)
>>  lines(x, col="blue", lwd=2)
>>  axis(1, tcl=0, labels=FALSE, col="black", lwd=1,
>> at=as.Date(c("1970-01-01","2011-01-01")))
>>  axis(2, las=2, tick=FALSE)
>>  par(op)
>>
>>
>> ### with tikz:
>> library(tikzDevice)
>>
>> tikz("try.tex", standAlone=TRUE)
>>  op<-par(bg=11,bty="n", cex=2, mar=c(3,4,1,2)+0.1)
>>  x <- runif(100)
>>  plot(x, las=1, yaxt="n",tcl=0, ann=F, type="l", lwd=2, col="blue")
>>  grid(col="white", lty="solid", nx=NA, ny=NULL, lwd=2)
>>  lines(x, col="blue", lwd=2)
>>  axis(1, tcl=0, labels=FALSE, col="black", lwd=1,
>> at=as.Date(c("1970-01-01","2011-01-01")))
>>  axis(2, las=2, tick=FALSE)
>>  par(op)
>> dev.off()
>>
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