R help - Jun 2014 - How to draw Bubble chart with mini pie charts as bubbles in R

Dear all,
Good day!

Could anybody help me how to draw a bubble chart with mini pie charts as bubbles
in R ?
Introducing any experiences, books, booklet or source code will appreciated.

Bunch of thanks.

Best,
Amir

On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:03:21 PM Agony wrote:
> Dear all,
> Good day!
> 
> Could anybody help me how to draw a bubble chart with mini pie 
charts as
> bubbles in R ? Introducing any experiences, books, booklet or source 
code
> will appreciated.
> 
Hi Amir,
The floating.pie function (plotrix) might do what you want. For 
example:

# first create a simple function to do the chart
pie_bubbles<-function(xpos,ypos,radii,sectors,
 sector_col=NULL,main="",xlab="",ylab="") {

 xlim<-c(min(xpos-radii),max(xpos+radii))
 ylim<-c(min(ypos-radii),max(ypos+radii))
 nbubbles<-length(xpos)
 if(is.null(sector_col)) {
  sector_col<-list()
  for(scol in 1:nbubbles)
   sector_col[[scol]]<-rainbow(length(sectors[[scol]]))
 }
 plot(0,xlim=xlim,ylim=ylim,type="n",
  main=main,xlab=xlab,ylab=ylab)
 for(bubble in 1:nbubbles)
  floating.pie(xpos=xpos[bubble],ypos=ypos[bubble],
   x=sectors[[bubble]],radius=radii[bubble],
   col=sector_col[[bubble]])
}
# set the x positions
xpos<-c(2,4,6,8,10)
# and the y positions
ypos<-c(4,8,6,10,2)
# the radii are the "bubble" radii
radii<-c(1,0.5,1.2,0.7,1.3)
# these are the sector extents of the pies
sectors<-list(1:4,c(5,3,8,6,2),c(3,2,1),c(3,7,5,8),c(2.5,3.7))
# get the plotrix package
library(plotrix)
pie_bubbles(xpos,ypos,radii,sectors,main="Pie bubbles")

The above is pretty basic, but it should get you started.

Jim