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after updating to R 2.15, the alpha channel in ggplot does not seem to work anymore.
plot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100),bg="#cc000055",pch=21)
works perfectly fine but
qplot(rnorm(100),rnorm(100),color="#cc000044")
does not! Also, the alpha() function from the ggplot2 package is not found anymore (I also tried ggplot2::alpha().
Is that a known problem? I wasn’t able to find anything about online…
Thanks!
I can replicate the issue using R-2.15.0 and ggplot2 0.9.0.
As Ben noted, the standard way of specifying translucency in ggplot2 is to provide an explicit
alphaargument. You should try to use this for all new plotting code.I think a case could made that ggplot should support legacy specification of alpha via the colour argument. If you feel strongly about this, then file an issue.