[R] continuous coloring of a polygon

Roger Leenders r.t.a.j.leenders at rug.nl
Sun Aug 17 12:56:23 CEST 2008


Thanks Barry, that works beautifully!

Roger


Barry Rowlingson schreef:
> 2008/8/17 Roger Leenders <r.t.a.j.leenders at rug.nl>:
>   
>> WinXP, R2.7.1
>>
>> Thanks so much to all who have reponded to my inquery. The solutions are
>> most helpful.
>> There is only one final thing that I can't seem to get right.
>> All of the proposed solutions yield a figure that is not quite round, but is
>> wider than its height. This can be resolved by manually resizing the window
>> in which it is plotted, but that becomes cumbersome when many of these
>> figures need to be generated. Is there a way to enforce the figure to be
>> perfectly round?
>> I have tried plotting directly to a windows device (using for example the
>> code below) or to a pdf-device in which I specifically specify the square
>> size of the plot, but the situation remains in which the figure is wider
>> than it is high. Does anyone know how to solve this final piece of the
>> puzzle?
>>
>>     
>
>  add 'asp=1' to your plot() function to specify a 1:1 aspect ratio.
> Should do the trick.
>
> Barry
>



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