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plotrix (version 2.8-3)

Various plotting functions

Description

Lots of plots, various labeling, axis and color scaling functions.

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install.packages('plotrix')

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Version

2.8-3

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Jim Lemon

Last Published

February 21st, 2010

Functions in plotrix (2.8-3)

barNest.svymean

Display a nested breakdown of means
clock24.plot

Plot values on a 24 hour "clockface"
getIntersectList

Enter the information for a set intersection display
getMarginWidth

Find the margin width necessary to fit text or a legend next to a plot
draw.tilted.sector

Display a 3D pie sector
draw.circle

Draw a circle
soil.texture

Soil texture triangle plot
furc

Plot a dendrite
cluster.overplot

Shift overlying points into clusters
bumpchart

Display a "bumps" chart
centipede.plot

Display a centipede plot
draw.arc

Draw arc
cylindrect

Display an apparent cylinder
feather.plot

Display vectors along a horizontal reference line
multhist

Plot a multiple histogram, as a barplot
color.legend

Legend matching categories or values to colors
floating.pie

Display a floating pie chart
pie.labels

Place labels on a pie chart
polygon.shadow

Display a shadow effect for an arbitrary polygon
gantt.chart

Display a Gantt chart
bin.wind.records

Classify wind direction and speed records
barNest

Display a nested breakdown of numeric values
gap.plot

Display a plot with one or two gaps (missing ranges) on one axis
gap.boxplot

Display a boxplot with a gap (missing range)
makeDendrite

Build a list of the mutually exclusive attributes of objects
radial.plot

Plot values on a circular grid of 0 to 2*pi radians
triax.plot

Triangle plot
color.scale

Turn values into colors.
staircase.plot

Display a staircase plot
plotCI

Plot confidence intervals/error bars
revaxis

Plot with axis direction(s) reversed
symbolbarplot

barplot filled with symbols
stackpoly

Display the columns of a matrix or data frame as stacked polygons
soils

Soil texture data from 125 soils
ablineclip

Add a straight line to a plot
soil.texture.uk

Soil texture triangle plot using UK conventions
hexagon

Draw a hexagon
makeIntersectList

Count set intersections
barp

A bar plotting routine
std.error

Calculate standard error of the mean
boxed.labels

Place labels in boxes
get.triprop

Enter three proportion data - usually soil textures
polar.plot

Plot values on a circular grid of 0 to 360 degrees
spread.labels

Spread labels for irregularly spaced values
intersectDiagram

Display set intersections
color.gradient

Calculate an arbitrary sequence of colors
brkdn.plot

A point/line plotting routine
qt.plot

Quantity by interval plot
lengthKey

Key for interpreting lengths in a plot
axis.mult

Display an axis with values having a multiplier
pasteCols

Paste the columns of a matrix together
get.segs

Calculate the midpoints and limits for a centipede plot
count.overplot

Show overlying points as counts
diamondplot

Plot multiple variables as polygons on a radial grid
zoomInPlot

Display a plot with a rectangular section expanded in an adjacent plot
multsymbolbox

Draw boxes filled with symbols
vectorField

Display magnitude/direction vectors
hierobrk

Perform a nested breakdown of numeric values
axis.break

Place a "break" mark on an axis
spreadout

Spread out a vector of numbers to a minimum interval
staxlab

Place staggered labels on an axis
emptyspace

Find an empty space on a plot
color.scale.lines

Line segments with scaled colors
pie3D

Display a 3D pie chart
color.id

Identify closest match to a color
weighted.hist

Display a weighted histogram
gradient.rect

Display a rectangle filled with an arbitrary color gradient
pyramid.plot

Pyramid plot
taylor.diagram

Taylor diagram
gap.barplot

Display a barplot with a gap (missing range) on one axis
fan.plot

Display a fan plot
corner.label

Find corner locations and optionally display a label
smoothColors

Build a vector of color values
clean.args

Remove inappropriate arguments from an argument list
dispersion

Display a measure of dispersion
fullaxis

Add an axis with a line to the edge of the plot
barNest.svyprop

Display a nested breakdown of numeric proportions
rescale

Scale numbers into a new range
sizeplot

Plot with repeated symbols by size
sizetree

Display a hierarchical breakdown of disjunct categories
arctext

Display text on a circular arc
plot.dendrite

Plot a dendrogram of a dendrite object
listDepth

Find the maximum depth of a list
pie3D.labels

Display labels on a 3D pie chart
symbolbox

Draw a box filled with symbols
addtable2plot

Add a table of values to a plot
clplot

Plot lines with colors determined by values.
dotplot.mtb

Minitab style dotplots
sumDendrite

Sum the counts in the top level of a dendrite object
triax.abline

Lines for triangle plot
textbox

Add text box
get.breaks

Get the breakpoints for a weighted histogram
get.soil.texture

Enter soil texture data
color2D.matplot

Display a numeric matrix as color matrix
getFigCtr

Find the center of the figure region
twoord.plot

Plot with two ordinates
oz.windrose.legend

Display an Australian wind rose legend
get.gantt.info

Gather the information to create a Gantt chart
tab.title

Display the title of a plot as a colored tab
thigmophobe

Find the direction away from the closest point
triax.frame

Triangle plot frame
legendg

Legend with grouped bars, lines or symbols
triax.points

Triangle plot points
oz.windrose

Display an Australian wind rose
thigmophobe.labels

Place labels away from the nearest point