Blacked out ggplot plots when rendering Rmd

[mario_becerra]

Hi!

I updated my operating system and had to reinstall R, RStudio and all the packages I use. With the new version of this, when I render an html using Rmarkdown all my ggplots have a black background when I did not specify so. They look like this:

Here is the sessionInfo() of what I'm running:

sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 22631)

Matrix products: default


locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: Europe/Berlin
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
 [1] here_1.0.1        brms_2.22.0       Rcpp_1.0.14       readr_2.1.5       tidyr_1.3.1       scales_1.4.0     
 [7] forcats_1.0.0     emmeans_1.11.0    dplyr_1.1.4       stringi_1.8.4     reactable_0.4.4   htmltools_0.5.8.1
[13] patchwork_1.3.0   ggbeeswarm_0.7.2  ggplot2_3.5.2     kableExtra_1.4.0 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] tensorA_0.36.2.1     gtable_0.3.6         beeswarm_0.4.0       xfun_0.51            htmlwidgets_1.6.4   
 [6] lattice_0.22-6       tzdb_0.5.0           vctrs_0.6.5          tools_4.4.3          generics_0.1.3      
[11] parallel_4.4.3       sandwich_3.1-1       tibble_3.2.1         pkgconfig_2.0.3      Matrix_1.7-2        
[16] checkmate_2.3.2      RColorBrewer_1.1-3   RcppParallel_5.1.10  distributional_0.5.0 lifecycle_1.0.4     
[21] compiler_4.4.3       farver_2.1.2         stringr_1.5.1        Brobdingnag_1.2-9    codetools_0.2-20    
[26] vipor_0.4.7          bayesplot_1.11.1     yaml_2.3.10          pillar_1.10.2        MASS_7.3-64         
[31] bridgesampling_1.1-2 abind_1.4-8          multcomp_1.4-28      nlme_3.1-167         posterior_1.6.1     
[36] tidyselect_1.2.1     digest_0.6.37        mvtnorm_1.3-3        purrr_1.0.4          splines_4.4.3       
[41] rprojroot_2.0.4      fastmap_1.2.0        grid_4.4.3           cli_3.6.4            magrittr_2.0.3      
[46] loo_2.8.0.9000       survival_3.8-3       TH.data_1.1-3        withr_3.0.2          backports_1.5.0     
[51] estimability_1.5.1   rmarkdown_2.29       matrixStats_1.5.0    zoo_1.8-14           hms_1.1.3           
[56] coda_0.19-4.1        evaluate_1.0.3       knitr_1.50           viridisLite_0.4.2    rstantools_2.4.0    
[61] rlang_1.1.5          xtable_1.8-4         glue_1.8.0           xml2_1.3.8           svglite_2.1.3       
[66] rstudioapi_0.17.1    R6_2.6.1             systemfonts_1.2.1

[mario_becerra]

Update: I checked an old html that I created before the update and I saw that I used ggplot2 version 3.5.1 and rmarkdown version 2.28. I downgraded to these versions of ggplot2 and rmarkdown and the problem is still there. This makes me think maybe it's because of the newer version of RStudio, but I'm not sure.

[mario_becerra]

New update: I upgraded to RStudio version 2025.05.0 Build 496 and now the plots look as they should