UPDATE Turns out it was an issue of not being able to produce raster graphics over a remote desktop connection.
I want to insert an image from file into a plot made with ggplot2. This question has already been asked here (Inserting an image to ggplot2) but for me the accepted answer produces a plot devoid of any image. There are no errors or warnings: the axes, grid, and points all plot just fine but there's no R logo (exported plot; I couldn't upload an image here). Code below:
library(ggplot2)
library(png)
library(grid)
img <- readPNG(system.file("img", "Rlogo.png", package="png"))
g <- rasterGrob(img, interpolate=TRUE)
qplot(1:10, 1:10, geom="blank") +
annotation_custom(g, xmin=-Inf, xmax=Inf, ymin=-Inf, ymax=Inf) +
geom_point()
I've tried playing around with the xy values and have used several different images and formats but to no avail.
The problem I'm having is specific to using a rastergrob object with annotate_custom(), as the examples given on the ggplot2 documentation site for annotate_custom() work just fine, e.g.:
library(gridExtra)
qplot(1:10, 1:10, geom = "blank") +
annotation_custom(grob = tableGrob(head(iris[ ,1:3])),
xmin = 3, xmax = 6, ymin = 2, ymax = 8)
I'm using 64-bit R version 3.0.2 on windows with ggplot2 version 0.9.3.1 and my packages are all updated.
Any thoughts would be most welcome, and apologies if I'm missing something simple!