antipolygon: Fill the complement of a polygon

In GEOmap: Topographic and Geologic Mapping

Fill the complement of a polygon

Description

Fill a plot with a color outside the confines of a polygon.

Usage

antipolygon(x, y, col = 0, corner=1, pct=.4)

Arguments

x	x coordinates of polygon
y	y coordinates of polygon
col	Fill color
corner	Corner on the plot to connect to at the end: 1 = LowerLeft(default) ; 2:UpperLeft 3 = UpperRight; 4=LowerRight
pct	Decimal percent of usr coordinates to expand beyond the polygon

Details

antipolygon uses par("usr") to determine the external bounds of plotting region. Corners are labels from bottom left counter-clockwise, 1-4.

Value

List:

x	x-coordinates of mask
y	y-coordinates of mask

Used for graphical side effect

Note

If the figure is resized after plotting, filling may not appear correct.

Author(s)

Jonathan M. Lees <[e-mail]>

See Also

polygon, par

Examples

set.seed(2018)
x = runif(100)
y = runif(100)

#########  some data points to plot:

plot(x,y)
###########   create polygon:
pp =list(x=c(0.231,0.316,0.169,0.343,0.311,0.484,0.757,
         0.555,0.800,0.563,0.427,0.412,0.203),
     y=c(0.774,0.622,0.401,0.386,0.138,0.312,0.200,0.459,
        0.658,0.624,0.954,0.686,0.813))

polygon(pp)

antipolygon(x=pp$x, y=pp$y,col='blue')
####  where as this does not look so good
plot(x,y)
antipolygon(x=pp$x, y=pp$y,col='blue', corner=2)

GEOmap documentation built on Sept. 1, 2023, 5:09 p.m.