polygon {graphics} | R Documentation |
Polygon Drawing
Description
polygon
draws the polygons whose vertices are
given in x
and y
.
Usage
polygon(x, y = NULL, density = NULL, angle = 45,
border = NULL, col = NA, lty = par("lty"),
..., fillOddEven = FALSE)
Arguments
x , y |
vectors containing the coordinates of the vertices of the polygon. |
density |
the density of shading lines, in lines per inch. The
default value of |
angle |
the slope of shading lines, given as an angle in degrees (counter-clockwise). |
col |
the color for filling the polygon. The default,
|
border |
the color to draw the border. The default, For compatibility with S, |
lty |
the line type to be used, as in |
... |
graphical parameters such as |
fillOddEven |
logical controlling the polygon shading mode: see
below for details. Default |
Details
The coordinates can be passed in a plotting structure
(a list with x
and y
components), a two-column matrix,
.... See xy.coords
.
It is assumed that the polygon is to be closed by joining the last point to the first point.
The coordinates can contain missing values. The behaviour is similar
to that of lines
, except that instead of breaking a line
into several lines, NA
values break the polygon into several
complete polygons (including closing the last point to the first
point). See the examples below.
When multiple polygons are produced, the values of density
,
angle
, col
, border
, and lty
are recycled
in the usual manner.
Shading of polygons is only implemented for linear plots: if either axis is on log scale then shading is omitted, with a warning.
Bugs
Self-intersecting polygons may be filled using either the
“odd-even” or “non-zero” rule. These fill a region if
the polygon border encircles it an odd or non-zero number of times,
respectively. Shading lines are handled internally by R according
to the fillOddEven
argument, but device-based solid fills
depend on the graphics device. The windows
, pdf
and postscript
devices have their own fillOddEven
argument to control this.
Author(s)
The code implementing polygon shading was donated by Kevin Buhr buhr@stat.wisc.edu.
References
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
Murrell, P. (2005) R Graphics. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
See Also
segments
for even more flexibility, lines
,
rect
, box
, abline
.
par
for how to specify colors.
Examples
x <- c(1:9, 8:1)
y <- c(1, 2*(5:3), 2, -1, 17, 9, 8, 2:9)
op <- par(mfcol = c(3, 1))
for(xpd in c(FALSE, TRUE, NA)) {
plot(1:10, main = paste("xpd =", xpd))
box("figure", col = "pink", lwd = 3)
polygon(x, y, xpd = xpd, col = "orange", lty = 2, lwd = 2, border = "red")
}
par(op)
n <- 100
xx <- c(0:n, n:0)
yy <- c(c(0, cumsum(stats::rnorm(n))), rev(c(0, cumsum(stats::rnorm(n)))))
plot (xx, yy, type = "n", xlab = "Time", ylab = "Distance")
polygon(xx, yy, col = "gray", border = "red")
title("Distance Between Brownian Motions")
# Multiple polygons from NA values
# and recycling of col, border, and lty
op <- par(mfrow = c(2, 1))
plot(c(1, 9), 1:2, type = "n")
polygon(1:9, c(2,1,2,1,1,2,1,2,1),
col = c("red", "blue"),
border = c("green", "yellow"),
lwd = 3, lty = c("dashed", "solid"))
plot(c(1, 9), 1:2, type = "n")
polygon(1:9, c(2,1,2,1,NA,2,1,2,1),
col = c("red", "blue"),
border = c("green", "yellow"),
lwd = 3, lty = c("dashed", "solid"))
par(op)
# Line-shaded polygons
plot(c(1, 9), 1:2, type = "n")
polygon(1:9, c(2,1,2,1,NA,2,1,2,1),
density = c(10, 20), angle = c(-45, 45))