Hi Jim, That sounds pretty great! I am happy to have contributed a stimulus for action to be taken in further developing the tools. I'll keep an eye out for your update.
Thanks, Patrick On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 06/28/2011 08:35 AM, Patrick Jemison wrote: >> >> I'd like to create a polar plot similar to those created by the polarFreq >> function in the openair package. However, this package seems to be >> specific >> to wind speed and direction, and requires a "ws" (wind speed) and a "wd" >> (wind direction) column. My data is unrelated to wind speed, but I'd like >> to be able to get a plot that does what polarFreq's plots do; I'd like to >> have points that expand as their distance from the center increases. >> >> http://www.oga-lab.net/RGM2/func.php?rd_id=openair:polarFreq >> >> Without this property, my plot looks more like spokes on a wheel, or >> similar >> to the polar.plot function in the plotrix package: >> http://www.oga-lab.net/RGM2/func.php?rd_id=plotrix:polar.plot >> >> Is there a package or function available that allows the creation of a >> plot >> as described above for a generic set of polar data? I spent a few hours >> today trying to find something I could use, but no luck yet. >> >> I'm using data of the form: x = r, y = theta, and z = a value to plot at >> the >> corresponding r,theta (as a comparison, for the polarFreq plot, z would be >> the frequency that is indicated by various colors in the plot). >> > Hi Patrick, > polar.plot (or other plots in the radial.plot family) currently don't plot > sectors or fill the (what the heck is the intersection of a sector and an > annulus called?) to illustrate a third value (say, proportion) in addition > to direction and intensity. However, it can be done, and I might just have a > shot at it if I can scratch up an hour or two sometime in the next couple of > years. Well, maybe sooner than that. Look out for "radial.pie". > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
