Hi Karl,
There is an example of using Deducer's with ggplot2 to produce a rose plot
(including a video of use), I thought you might find it useful:
http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/08/rose-plot-using-deducers-ggplot2-plot-builder/
<http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/08/rose-plot-using-deducers-ggplot2-plot-builder/>

----------------Contact
Details:-------------------------------------------------------
Contact me: Tal.Galili@gmail.com |  972-52-7275845
Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) |
www.r-statistics.com (English)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------




On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Karl Ropkins <K.Ropkins@its.leeds.ac.uk>wrote:

> David,
>
> Following on from Jim Lemon's suggest that polar plots might be more what
> you need, there are both wind rose and polar plot functions in the openair
> package that might be of use (particularly windRose and polarFreq). They
> will not do everthing you are after without some careful conditioning or
> extra work with latticeExtra, but could get you some of the way there.
>
> Karl Ropkins,
>
> >
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I am trying to create a spatial representation of some wind data.
> >
> > I have the season, frequency, strength and direction of the wind from 10
> > different locations, the coverage of the area that I am interested in is
> > not 100% there are small gaps in my coverage due to the location of the
> > weather stations.
> >
> > I am trying to create a series of wind maps e.g. the Prevailing Winds,
> the
> > maximum seasonal wind, etc.
> >
> > Could any body recommend any R-packages that would cover this type
> > problem/issue?
>
> Hi David,
> While there are several packages that include plotting routines for wind
> roses, it looks to me as though you want to define a small number of
> vectors representing prevailing wind, etc., possible overlaying these on
> a plot. That might be a job for a circular plotting routine (e.g.
> polar.plot) rather than a wind rose.
>
> Jim
> ______________________________________________
> R-help@r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

