shape (version 1.4.6.1)

shape-package: Functions for plotting graphical shapes, colors

Description

Functions for plotting graphical shapes such as ellipses, circles, cylinders, arrows, ...

Support for the book "A practical guide to ecological modelling - using R as a simulation platform" by Karline Soetaert and Peter M.J. Herman (2009). Springer.

Author

Karline Soetaert (Maintainer)

Details

Package:	shape
Type:	Package
Version:	1.3.4
Date:	2011-07-30
License:	GNU Public License 3 or above

This package is used in R-package ecolMod, which includes many more examples.

See also R-package diagram.

Changes in version 1.3.4: more consistent drawing of ellipse and circle segments, (functions getellipse, getcircle), added textflag. (both suggested by Tom Wilson)

See Also

A4, writelabel, emptyplot, drapecol, femmecol, intpalette, shadepalette, colorlegend, greycol, rotatexy, Arrowhead, Arrows, cylindersegment, filledcylinder, filledcircle, filledellipse, filledmultigonal, filledrectangle, filledshape, getellipse, plotcircle, plotellipse, roundrect, textflag.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## show examples (see respective help pages for details)
example(rotatexy)
example(filledshape)

## run demos
demo("colorshapes") # creating colored shapes

## open the directory with source code of demos
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="shape"), "/demo", sep=""))

## show package vignette
vignette("shape")
edit(vignette("shape"))
browseURL(paste(system.file(package="shape"), "/doc", sep=""))
}