(PR#1881) polygon() draws non-transparent border, erase.screen draws non-transparent border (PR#1881)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

That's the bug in GA_Polyline I have already fixed, so I no longer see it.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 oehl_list@gmx.de wrote:

>
> > Follow up.  The reason your example does not work is that par("bg") is
> > transparent (as the help page warns).  It does work if par(bg="white") is
> > set.  Plotting a polygon first fills the whole area, then overplots the
> > border (if both cases, for opaque colours).
>
> I GET AN UNDESIRED BLACK BORDER IN ERASE.SCREEN IF par("bg") ==
> "transparent".
> BUT I just discovered that my replication code does not show what I wanted
> to show if R is started newly.
>
> # THIS IS ADDITIONALLY NEEDED TO SHOW THE PROBLEM
> par(bg="transparent")
> # without SETTING background color to transparent THE FOLLOWING CODE
> # DOES NOT REPLICATE THE BUG
> # HAVING par("bg")=="transparent" and SETTING par(bg="transparent") IS NOT
> THE SAME
>
> oldpar <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)
>
> par(mar=c(0,0,0,0), oma=c(0,0,0,0))
> figs <- rbind(
> c( 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0)  # left
> , c( 0.5, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0)  # right
> )
> dimnames(figs) <- list(
> c("left","right" )
> , c("xlow","xhigh","ylow","yhigh")
> )
> screens <- split.screen(figs)
>
> par(usr=c(0, 1, 0, 1))
>
> #plot a box on border of left screen in some color
> box(col=5)
>
> # IN R I GET AN UNDESIRED BLACK BORDER HERE
> screen(2)
>
> close.screen(all.screens=TRUE)
> par(oldpar)
>
>
> Do you see my problem?
> Best
>
>
> Jens
>
>
>
> > version
>          _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    5.1
> year     2002
> month    06
> day      17
> language R
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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