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

Felipe Carrillo mazatlanmexico at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 4 17:10:06 CET 2009


Ian:
It would work if you copy it as a bitmap.

Felipe D. Carrillo  
Supervisory Fishery Biologist  
Department of the Interior  
US Fish & Wildlife Service  
California, USA


--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Ian Fiske <ianfiske at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ian Fiske <ianfiske at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R]  ggplot: problem with fill option in stat_smooth()
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 7:12 AM
> 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
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