Thanks for that Stephen. It works nicely. It seems that my expectations for the plot defaults were non-standard. From your remarks and those of a colleague with an engineering background, I guess the defaults are standard. As a biologist, it seemed sensible to me to expect it to work like a compass though. Future updates to the plotrix package apparently might include options to easily customize these features (thanks to the package maintainer).
Best regards, Quoting Stephen Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think that's the standard presentation for polar plots (theta measured from > positive x-axis) - that I've seen, anyway. But for customization you can > shift your origin for theta and define your own labels. For example, here is > a modification to the example in the help page for polar.plot(): > > testlen<-c(rnorm(36)*2+5) > testpos<-seq(0,350,by=10) > polar.plot(testlen,360-(testpos+90), > main="Test Polar Plot",lwd=3,line.col=4, > labels=seq(0,359,by=45)[c(3:1,8:4)], > label.pos=seq(0,359,by=45)) > > > > > > --- Tim Sippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all- > > > > > > > > I would like to orient my polar.plot (from package plotrix) so that the > > circular scale runs clockwise and the origin (ie. 0 degrees) starts at the > > top of the plot. The defaults of running the scale counter-clockwise and > > beginning with 90 degrees at the top of the graph seems counter-intuitive > > to > > me. > > > > > > > > I'm using R 2.5.0, and plotrix version 2.2-4. > > > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, > news, photos & more. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
