symbolbox: Draw a box filled with symbols

In plotrix: Various Plotting Functions

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")

plotrix documentation built on Nov. 10, 2023, 5:07 p.m.