[R] ggplot: problem with fill option in stat_smooth()

[Ian Fiske]

Thanks for the suggestion, Etienne.  It looks like this might be the
best approach after all, using a high resolution png exported from
Inkscape.  I'm impressed by its flawless pdf import!


-ian


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Etienne Bellemare Racine
<etiennebr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe you could try to open the pdf in Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/ and
> export it as a .emf or .png ?
>
> Etienne
>
> Ian Fiske a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using ggplot2 and continuing to find it very useful and pretty.
> However, I am trying to create some graphics for publication that would be
> included in an MS Word document (not my choice!) in Windows Vista.
>
> The problem is that I want to use stat_smooth() to add an fitted linear
> model line along with its 95% confidence band, but I cannot seem to get the
> confidence band in a format that would import into Word.  I have read the
> documentation and am using the fill="grey50" argument to eliminate
> transparency as a potential problem.  But still, I have tried nearly all
> export formats and the only one that correctly shows the confidence band is
> PDF, which I cannot import into Word as a vector graphic.
>
> This makes me wonder if the fill="grey50" option is working as advertised.
>
> Here is a simple example using the mtcars data set included with ggplot2:
> qplot(wt,mpg,data=mtcars) + stat_smooth(fill="grey50")
>
> I even tried the Cairo library as one R-help post suggested, but to no
> avail.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks much,
> Ian Fiske
>