watermark

[Jonas Tundo]

Hello,

 

Is there an easy way to add a watermark to a ggplot? At the moment I use annotate() with a low alpha value. For example:

annotate("text", x=0.5 , y = 80,label="Test watermark", size=4, alpha=0.5)

 

Does somebody know a better solution?

 

Greetings,

Jonas

 

 

 

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

I don't have any direct experience with this sort of thing, but you
should be able to use something like annotation_raster() or
annotation_custom() [both new in ggplot2-0.9.0] as an initial
background layer if your watermark is a graphic. However, neither
function seems to have the option to set alpha transparency for the
input graphic, so you'd need to do that in advance. Whether this is
'better' than your approach is for you to decide - if your actual
watermark is a text string, then I see no reason to deviate from your
current method.

If you have a solid graphical object that you want for a background,
one way to fake transparency, I guess, would be to use one of the
above as the first layer in the ggplot2 graph, and then overlay it
with a geom_rect() at full size in a solid color with alpha
transparency before adding anything else. You could write a function
to do that.

A couple of examples of the use of the aforementioned annotation
functions are in the ggplot2-0.9.0 transition guide, section 4:
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/hadley/ggplot2/guide-col.pdf

HTH,
Dennis

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[baptiste auguie]

This sounds like a good theme for a blog post on tumblr. Do you have
specific requirements for what the watermark should look like?
(graphic/text, transparency, location, size, ...)

Cheers,

b.

[Jonas Tundo]

Indeed. In the example I used text at a fixed location, but in most cases a logo across the plot is preferable.
I do not have specific requirements at the moment, it would be interesting to play with all the parameters that you mention. Other parameters that come to my mind are angle, number of repeats/watermarks, colour.
It is very important that the watermark doesn't distort the plot too much, the interpretation of the plot may not change/become more difficult.

Thanks,
Jonas

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Verzonden: dinsdag 22 mei 2012 3:17
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[baptiste auguie]

I've now blogged about this,

http://ggplot2.tumblr.com/

b.

[Jonas Tundo]

Thanks. I like the examples.

Jonas

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