[R] Spider Plot color problem

[Jim Lemon]

On 02/06/2010 02:21 AM, IoanLoft wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have encountered a problem which appears to have defeated my (admittedly
> nascent) R skills. I want to draw a spider plot with many cases (just over
> 300). I am primarily interested in the difference between 4 categories of
> cases, and want to display them as different colors. the col.stars parameter
> does not change the color of the lines (which I'm after), but fills the
> stars in (which I'm not after). I have tried fiddling around with par but
> that only changes the label color.
>
> I notice in the help file that further arguments can be passed to stars, and
> to see plot.default. I have tried passing col="red" for example, but to no
> avail.
>
> so far I have (where x is a dataframe containing 18 variables and 320
> cases):
>
> stars(x,locations=c(0,0), scale=FALSE, radius=FALSE, key.loc = c(0,0),
> main="title")
>
> and I haven't got any further than that. It would be great if anyone could
> help.
>
Hi I,
If you could provide an example, I will try to determine if the 
radial.plot function will do what you want.

Jim