On 10/08/2009 01:15 PM, darrenh65 wrote:
Hi,
I am attempting to create a polar chart (using plotrix polar.plt) and I need
to colour a segment of the grid to indicate an area of interest, say from
90-120 degrees, for arguments sake. Is this possible? I can colour the whole
grid by passing the grid.bg parameter through to radial.plot but I cannot
find a way to colour a segment.
thanks,
Darren
Hi Darren,
You're right, there isn't any way to color just one sector of the
background in a polar.plot. That's the bad news. The slightly less bad
news is that I think you can kludge it by calling polar.plot twice with
par(new=TRUE) between. First do the plot without the sector, noting the
maximum extent of the grid ("maxlength" in the code). Then plot the
polygon by calling the function so:
polar.plot(c(rep(maxlength,40)),
polar.pos=seq(start,end,length.out=40),rp.type="p",...)
par(new=TRUE)
(you may want more than 40 points) Then plot your real data on top of
this. I can't test this right now, but will try it out in the next day
or so.
Jim
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