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ross27
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R Visual with transparent background

‎10-10-2016 08:20 AM

Is it possible to create an R-Visual with a transparent background i.e. so that you can see an image added to the page background behing the plot the R-Visual generates?

 

Specifically I'm using ggplot2 and setting the fill of both plot.background andpanel.background to "transparent", but there still seems to be a white background between this and the background I can control through the PBI format options.

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arvidb
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‎05-02-2019 06:53 AM

I don't know whether this will work with ggplot2 but in a visual I made based on the fmsb package I was able to work around this issue by using the par() function before the plotting was called:

 

# generic par function for graphical elements, call before the plotting
par(bg="transparent")

# this is wear the plotting of the visual actually happens
radarchart(data)

 

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