Canvas: Canvas for Geometric Plotting

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Canvas for Geometric Plotting

Description

This is just a wrapper for creating an empty plot with suitable defaults for plotting geometric shapes.

Usage

Canvas(xlim = NULL, ylim = xlim, main = NULL, xpd = par("xpd"),
       mar=c(5.1,5.1,5.1,5.1), asp = 1, bg = par("bg"), usrbg = "white", ...)

Arguments

xlim, ylim	the xlims and ylims for the plot. Default is c(-1, 1).
xpd	expand drawing area, defaults to par("xpd").
main	the main title on top of the plot.
mar	set margins. Defaults to c(5.1,5.1,5.1,5.1).
asp	numeric, giving the aspect ratio y/x. (See plot.window for details. Default is 1.
bg	the background color of the plot, defaults to par("bg"), which usually will be "white".
usrbg	the color of the user space of the plot, defaults to "white".
...	additional arguments are passed to the plot() command.

Details

The plot is created with these settings:
asp = 1, xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n", xlab = "", ylab = "", frame.plot = FALSE.

Value

a list of all the previous values of the parameters changed (returned invisibly)

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <[e-mail]>

Examples

Canvas(7)
text(0, 0, "Hello world!", cex=5)

DescTools documentation built on Sept. 26, 2024, 1:07 a.m.