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 @LisaDeBruine
More here in why tikz is likely not suitable for what you mentioned https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51757/how-can-i-use-tikz-to-make-standalone-svg-graphics …
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Replying to @o_guest
I definitely don't want TikZ to make SVGs (I direct code for that :-) I want it to make paper figures so I don't have to code them in SVG.
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Replying to @LisaDeBruine
Ah, total misunderstanding! I thought you wanted it for the Web!
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I was pre coffee! That explains a lot. 
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