R: Arranges circles by iterative pair-wise repulsion within a...

circleLayout {packcircles}

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Arranges circles by iterative pair-wise repulsion within a bounding rectangle

This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use circleRepelLayout instead.

circleLayout(xyr, xlim, ylim, maxiter = 1000, wrap = TRUE, weights = 1)

`xyr`	A 3-column matrix or data frame (centre X, centre Y, radius).
`xlim`	The bounds in the X direction; either a vector for [xmin, xmax) or a single value interpreted as [0, xmax). Alternatively, omitting this argument or passing any of `NULL`, a vector of `NA` or an empty vector will result in unbounded movement in the X direction.
`ylim`	The bounds in the Y direction; either a vector for [ymin, ymax) or a single value interpreted as [0, ymax). Alternatively, omitting this argument or passing any of `NULL`, a vector of `NA` or an empty vector will result in unbounded movement in the Y direction.
`maxiter`	The maximum number of iterations.
`wrap`	Whether to treat the bounding rectangle as a toroid (default `TRUE`). When this is in effect, a circle leaving the bounds on one side re-enters on the opposite side.
`weights`	An optional vector of numeric weights (0 to 1 inclusive) to apply to the distance each circle moves during pair-repulsion. A weight of 0 prevents any movement. A weight of 1 gives the default movement distance. A single value can be supplied for uniform weights. A vector with length less than the number of circles will be silently extended by repeating the final value. Any values outside the range [0, 1] will be clamped to 0 or 1.

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This function assumes that circle sizes are expressed as radii whereas the default for circleRepelLayout is area.