This might give you some ideas:

http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php

Some examples that jumped out at me for your application:

*Circular density estimate
*http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=121

*Wind rose diagram
*http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=123

*radial.plot
*http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=75

*stars network
*http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=153


On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:34 PM, T.D. Rudolph <tylerdeanrudolph@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> In conducting studies of animal orientation and displacement, I need to
> produce circular histograms of angles (bearings in radians 0-2pi) where the
> centre of the circle indicates very few observations for a given bin of
> angles and outwardly concentric circles indicate greater frequencies of
> observations for a given bin of angles.  I'd like not to have to write the
> function myself but I haven't found exactly what I am looking for yet....
>
> Tyler
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