[R] gray color in trellis xyplot

Jason Turner jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz
Tue Jan 28 21:01:02 CET 2003


On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:00:48AM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
> Luca De Benedictis <debene at unimc.it> writes:
...
> > Why dark gray was chosen as the default color?
>
> compatibility with the original trellis graphics implementation.

FWIW, I find that for on-screen graph reading, the cyan on dark
grey is great.  It's quite easy to read and interpret.  I don't
like it on printouts, which is why I'm happy that when printing
to a PDF device, lattice magically picks a white background.

Nice work.

Jason
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