A heat map is a false color image (basically
  image(t(x))) with a dendrogram added to the left side
  and to the top.  Typically, reordering of the rows and columns
  according to some set of values (row or column means) within the
  restrictions imposed by the dendrogram is carried out. See also heatmap.
heatmap.circular(x, Rowv = NULL, Colv = if (symm) "Rowv" else NULL, 
distfun = dist.circular, hclustfun = hclust, 
reorderfun = function(d, w) reorder(d, w), add.expr, symm = FALSE, 
revC = identical(Colv, "Rowv"), na.rm = TRUE, margins = c(5, 5), 
lwid = c(1, 4), lhei = c(1, 4), ColSideColors, RowSideColors, 
NAColors = "black", cexRow = 0.2 + 1/log10(nr), cexCol = 0.2 + 1/log10(nc), 
labRow = NULL, labCol = NULL, main = NULL, xlab = NULL, ylab = NULL, 
keep.dendro = FALSE, annotate.expr, annotate = rep(NA, 4), 
verbose = getOption("verbose"), ...)par(mfrow= *) or (mfcol= *)
has been called.
numeric matrix of class circular of the values to be plotted.
determines if and how the row dendrogram should be
    computed and reordered.  Either a dendrogram or a
    vector of values used to reorder the row dendrogram or
    NA to suppress any row dendrogram (and reordering) or
    by default, NULL, see ‘Details’ below.
determines if and how the column dendrogram should be
    reordered.  Has the same options as the Rowv argument above and
    additionally when x is a square matrix, Colv =
      "Rowv" means that columns should be treated identically to the
    rows (and so if there is to be no row dendrogram there will not be a
    column one either).
function used to compute the distance (dissimilarity)
    between both rows and columns.  Defaults to dist.circular.
function used to compute the hierarchical clustering
    when Rowv or Colv are not dendrograms.  Defaults to
    hclust. Should take as argument a result of distfun
    and return an object to which as.dendrogram can be applied.
function(d,w) of dendrogram and weights for
    reordering the row and column dendrograms.  The default uses
    reorder.dendrogram.
expression that will be evaluated after the call to
    image.  Can be used to add components to the plot.
logical indicating if x should be treated
    symmetrically; can only be true when x is a square matrix.
logical indicating if the column order should be
    reversed for plotting, such that e.g., for the
    symmetric case, the symmetry axis is as usual.
logical indicating whether NA's should be removed.
numeric vector of length 2 containing the margins
    (see par(mar= *)) for column and row names, respectively.
a vector of values for the widths of columns on the device.
          Relative widths are specified with numeric values. Absolute
          widths (in centimetres) are specified with the lcm()
          function (see layout).
a vector of values for the heights of rows on the device.
          Relative and absolute heights can be specified, see lwid above.
(optional) character vector of length ncol(x)
    containing the color names for a horizontal side bar that may be used to
    annotate the columns of x.
(optional) character vector of length nrow(x)
    containing the color names for a vertical side bar that may be used to
    annotate the rows of x.
the color used to plot missing values.
positive numbers, used as cex.axis in
    for the row or column axis labeling.  The defaults currently only
    use number of rows or columns, respectively.
character vectors with row and column labels to
    use; these default to rownames(x) or colnames(x),
    respectively.
main, x- and y-axis titles; defaults to none.
logical indicating if the dendrogram(s) should be
    kept as part of the result (when Rowv and/or Colv are
    not NA).
annotation in the four external side of the figure. A positive value in a position means you want annotate something in that position (1=bottom, 2=left, 3=top, 4=right). For instance, annotate=c(0.1, NA, NA, 1, 1) means you want to annotate one thing on the bottom with dimension 0.1 and two things on right each with dimension 1.
must be a list of expressions with the same length as annotate. For instance for annotate=c(0.1, NA, NA, 1, 1) you must have something as annotate.expr=list(expr1, NA, NA, expr2, expr2) where expr1 etc. must be a valid R expression able to produce a plot.
logical indicating if information should be printed.
additional arguments passed on to image,
    e.g., col specifying the colors.
Claudio Agostinelli using the code from heatmap.
If either Rowv or Colv are dendrograms they are honored
  (and not reordered).  Otherwise, dendrograms are computed as
  dd <- as.dendrogram(hclustfun(distfun(X))) where X is
  either x or t(x).
If either is a vector (of ‘weights’) then the appropriate
  dendrogram is reordered according to the supplied values subject to
  the constraints imposed by the dendrogram, by reorder(dd,
    Rowv), in the row case.
  If either is missing, as by default, then the ordering of the
  corresponding dendrogram is by the mean direction value of the rows/columns,
  i.e., in the case of rows, Rowv <- rowMeans(x, na.rm=na.rm).
  If either is NULL, no reordering will be done for
  the corresponding side.
Unless Rowv = NA (or Colw = NA), the original rows and
  columns are reordered in any case to match the dendrogram,
  e.g., the rows by order.dendrogram(Rowv) where
  Rowv is the (possibly reorder()ed) row
  dendrogram.
heatmap() uses layout and draws the
  image in the lower right corner of a 2x2 layout.
  Consequentially, it can not be used in a multi column/row
  layout, i.e., when par(mfrow= *) or (mfcol= *)
  has been called.