..see the function-code HERE.

Some project offspin, the jpgfader-function (the jpgfader-function in funny use can be viewed HERE):Read more »

...Just read you JPEG and add an alpha channel manually, then assign values for transparency. Of course for printing you need to use a device that accepts alpha.See how it's done HERE.

...I really dig the animation package! ..so here's the outcome of my firsts encounters with saveHTML() - I produced an animation with pre-existing images by utilizing the functions readJPEG() and rasterImage() from the R-packages jpeg and ReadImage...

Edward Kao just sent another typo found both in  Monte Carlo Statistical Methods (Problem 3.21) and in Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R (Exercise 3.17), namely that should be I also got another email from Jerry Sin mentioning that matrix summation in the matrix commands of Figure 1.2 of Introducing Monte Carlo Methods ...

It will often be more efficient to generate graphics in an external software package and then include these files in a LaTeX beamer presentation. The standard LaTeX approach to including graphics can be utilised to perform this task. Fast Tube by Casper The graphicx is useful for including graphics files ...