This package provides functions for importing external vector images and drawing them as part of R plots. This package is different from the grImport package because, where that package imports PostScript format images, this package imports SVG format images. Furthermore, this package imports a specific subset of SVG, so external images must be preprocessed using a package like rsvg to produce SVG that this package can import. SVG features that are not supported by R graphics, such as gradient fills, can be imported and then exported via the gridSVG package.