Tell me how wrong I am for using TikZ. I bloody love stuff like TikZ in LaTeX or PIL in Python for making 2D stuff. GUIs hurt my feelings. 
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Replying to @o_guest
I'd never heard of TikZ before; it looks awesome! I always make SVG web icons in a text editor & can't stand the GUI options like Inkscape.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine
I use PIL for THAT more than tikz. Tikz is more appropriate for presentations and journal articles, but you may of course use it to write to
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Replying to @o_guest @LisaDeBruine
SVG with transparent background? Maybe? Never tried it. PDF with white background isn't appropriate for web that's for sure.
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Replying to @o_guest
I'm happy with SVG for web, but it's not great for paper figures. TikZ looks good for that. Hope it integrates with RMarkdown->LaTeX
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine
Yeah, tikz is latex so doesn't natively write to SVG. Hence why I raised the issue and recommended PIL instead.
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Replying to @o_guest @LisaDeBruine
I think tikz might not be for you. Does R offer a library based on cairo?
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Replying to @o_guest
You can add most latex packages to RMarkdown files and write equations in latex. I'll have a play with TikZ and see if it's the same.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine
Ah, FWIW I make all my tikz images in as plain latex as possible and then move them to my fancy beamer class.
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Eventually they need to be saved as separate PDFs of course if included in a manuscript.
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