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I thought about that star graph again, and realized that it would be quite a handy thing for visualizing cyclic data like time or compass direction. Here is a cleaned up (and renamed) version to do a polar plot that starts at the right and goes counterclockwise or a 24 hour clock plot that starts at the top and goes clockwise. There are probably other varieties that would be interesting. Jim

Hi, how can I reverse the radius axis of plotrix's polar.plot function? Perhaps this sounds strange, but I use the radians for angles as well: In the center is zenith and the corresponding angle is 90?, not 0. See an example plot at http://www.mysundial.ca/tsp/images/sun_chart_50_solar_polar.jpg dirs<-c("S","E","N","W")

Hi, I made a package on a linux box. All worked fine. The package contains only R code (no C). I then wanted to make a zip file so that I could test the package on a windows machine. I have tried all the obvious ways to do this (and even some that are not!), but to no avail. The only instructions I find about building packages for windows (e.g. mypkg.zip) seem to imply that the build be done

Hi , I have two sorted vectors X and Xi, where the range of Xi lies within the range of X. For an element in Xi, I want to find the neigbouring data in X, e.g. find an index ix so that for element number k, then X[ix[k]] < X[k] < X[ix[k] +1] # also OK with "<=" on either one, but not both This is easy to code by looping over the data in X,Xi, but I suspect there may be a

Dear R-users, Hereby a polar plot function for plotting angular data. I hope it will be usefull for some of you. I had a need to plot frequencies of wind-directions. The not-that-cheap SigmaPlot software did not allow me to change the orientation of the angular axis to clockwise orientation (what is used for meteorological observations). I even tried the latest version availible at the time

Dear R-users, As noted by Paul Murrell < p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz > there is errors in the code for polar plotting I send to R-help under the title "Polar plot, circular plot (angular data)" at Thu Oct 17 2002 - 12:18:20 CEST. Thanks! I have reorganized the code into a structure ('pp'). This allows plots to be modified to a greater extent by passing arguments by ...

Hi, I ran into an odd problem with the print command for R-2.0 on a windows machine. The icelandic character thorn (??,??) which is included in in the Latin-1 character set [iso/8859-1 char# 222 (upper case) and #254 (lower case)] prints out incorrectly. Instead of getting the correct character I get the octal codes for upper and lower case thorn (\336 or \376). This only happens on a windows

Hi, I'd like to plot in in polar coordinates a line which is given as a vector of lengths and angles. library("plotrix")

Hi, I am trying to understand the behaviour of the plot function. If I have novdate <- as.Date("2001/11/1") + (0:29) y <- 1:30 b <- data.frame(novdate,y) then plot(b$novdate,b$y) will produce a plot where the x-ticmarks are given as dates (Nov 04, Nov 09 etc), but plot(b) will produce a plot where the x-tickmars are integer values (#day since Jan 1st 1970) In the first

I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 on my laptop, downloaded the latest version of R, compiled it and ran it. To my surprise I discovered that the X11() command returned an error to the effect that X was not available. Examining R config.log I noticed that there were several complaints about X and tcl in there. Basic include files, such as X11/X.h were not found. I have previously compiled

Hi, Two questions: 1 - Say I have average speed and directions for tide and I would like to plot them on a polar plot, but with different colors so I can indicate the two directions. I'm using polar.plot from the plotrix library. How can I add a second "b" and "dir.b" series to a polar.plot? library(plotrix) a = 3 dir.a = 85 b = 4 dir.b = 250 polar.plot(a, dir.a, start =

I recently wrote a package that runs on both Linux and Windows. The functions fetch data to an SQL database and make diverse plots, usually with many labels and annotations. I recently noticed that on SOME windows computers the fonts in the plots were too large, which caused labels to overlap. On other windows computers this does not happen. However on both computers the command

Hello, I am currently using the polar.plot function in the plotrix package to graph data. Unfortunately, it seems that the default for the labels is to have a background color that is covering the line representing my data, making it difficult to read. Is there a way to make this label background transparent? Example: lengths <- 0:72 bearing <- seq(from=0, to=360, by=5)

I am trying to draw a polar plot, which is easy enough to do in the plotrix package through the polar.plot function. However I would like to change the origin of the length vector. For instance all my length values are between 75 and 85, so instead of having the origin as 0 (the default) I'd like it to be, say, 50. Is there any way do to this in the polar.plot function, or if not is there an

Hi R-gurus, In python one can do >>> import string >>> print string.letters and get the characters in the local character set. This feature is often useful in Python, and if I could find it in R I could make good use of it. In R both Sys.getlocale() and localeToCharset() can tell me which charset I am using, but I haven't found a way to print out the actual characters.

Hello all- I would like to orient my polar.plot (from package plotrix) so that the circular scale runs clockwise and the origin (ie. 0 degrees) starts at the top of the plot. The defaults of running the scale counter-clockwise and beginning with 90 degrees at the top of the graph seems counter-intuitive to me. I'm using R 2.5.0, and plotrix version 2.2-4. Many thanks, Tim

Hello list, I wrote a simple program to plot data on polar axes, taking advantage of the plotrix package and its function radial.plot. The basic plot works fine, but I am having difficulties with the formatting. There are three problems, but I thought I would attack them one at a time. Here is the first: If my data set contains values with all vector lengths between 0 and 100 (and various

Hi Folks, Here is my attempt at a simple polar plot. > pos <- seq(0,360,by=5) > tspk <- rep(c(1,0,1),c(13,47,13)) > require(plotrix) > polar.plot(tspk,pos,rp.type="s",point.symbols=17,point.col="green4") I only see half the symbols, the other half of each symbol is hidden under the circular grid. In fact if I change rp.type="r", I see the

First a bit of background: After doing a search for a flexible polar plot function and coming up empty, I have begun writing one myself. Since I am new to writing mid-level graphics routines, this has required some learning about lattice, grid and related things. I am to the point where I have a workable proof of concept, but still need to make some improvements. My goal is to have

Folks, I am having problems with a plot I want to create to give an impression of changes in an ordinal scale measure (1-5) at three time points (0, 14 and 21 days). I can produce a radial plot of bare vectors but getting this to appear on the base plot is not possible as it always seems to end up below the plot area and even outside the plot window. It seems I have not understood