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symbolbox: Draw a box filled with symbols

Description

Draws a box on the current figure that is filled with symbols representing individual counts

Usage

symbolbox(x1,y1,x2,y2,tot,relw=0.5,fg=par("fg"),bg=par("bg"),box=TRUE,
  debug = TRUE,...)

Value

none; draws on the current figure

Arguments

x1

left side of box

y1

bottom side of box

x2

right side of box

y2

top side of box

tot

total number of symbols to put in the box

relw

relative width (relative to height) of symbols

fg

foreground color

bg

background color

box

(logical) draw box border?

debug

debug output?

...

additional arguments to polygon() for drawing box

Author

Ben Bolker

Details

tries to automatically figure out appropriate scaling to fit symbols into the box

See Also

multsymbolbox

Examples

Run this code
 plot(1:10,1:10,type="n")
 symbolbox(2,5,3,7,tot=20)
 symbolbox(6,2,10,6,tot=50,fg="blue",bg="magenta")

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