symbolbox {plotrix}R Documentation

Draw a box filled with symbols

Description

Draws a box on the current figure that is filled with symbols representing individual counts

Usage

 symbolbox(x1,y1,x2,y2,tot,relw=0.5,fg=par("fg"),bg=par("bg"),box=TRUE,
  debug = TRUE,...)

Arguments

x1 left side of box
y1 bottom side of box
x2 right side of box
y2 top side of box
tot total number of symbols to put in the box
relw relative width (relative to height) of symbols
fg foreground color
bg background color
box (logical) draw box border?
debug debug output?
... additional arguments to polygon() for drawing box

Details

tries to automatically figure out appropriate scaling to fit symbols into the box

Value

none; draws on the current figure

Author(s)

Ben Bolker

See Also

multsymbolbox

Examples

 plot(1:10,1:10,type="n")
 symbolbox(2,5,3,7,tot=20)
 symbolbox(6,2,10,6,tot=50,fg="blue",bg="magenta")

[Package plotrix version 2.7-2 Index]