rectFill {plotrix}

Draw a rectangle filled with symbols

Description

Draws a rectangle on the current figure filled with arbitrary symbols.

Usage

 rectFill(x1,y1,x2,y2,fg=par("fg"),bg=par("bg"),xinc=NA,yinc=NA,
  pch=1,pch.cex=1,pch.col=par("fg"),...)

Arguments

x1, y1, x2, y2

Rectangle limits as in ‘⁠rect⁠’.

fg

Foreground color

bg

Background color

xinc, yinc

The x and y increments of spacing for the symbols.

pch

Which symbol to use

pch.cex

Character expansion for the symbols.

pch.col

Color(s) for the symbols.

...

Additional arguments to ‘⁠points⁠’ for the symbols.

Details

‘⁠rectFill⁠’ draws a rectangle and fills the rectangle with the symbols requested. It is probably most useful as a substitute for fill colors in a black and white environment.

Value

nil

Author(s)

Jim Lemon

See Also

rect, points

Examples

 plot(1:7,type="n",xlab="",ylab="",main="Test of rectFill")
 rectFill(1:6,1:6,2:7,2:7,bg=2:7,pch=c("+","*","o",".","#","^"),
  xinc=c(0.2,0.1,0.2,0.1,0.2,0.2),yinc=c(0.2,0.1,0.2,0.1,0.2,0.2),
  pch.col=1:6)
 barp(matrix(runif(9),nrow=3),main="Black and white bar plot",pch=1:3)