[R] Rotating points, preferably in grid

[Dalthorp, Daniel]

Silly? Not really.

It's simple. It works.

You could jump into unicode for your text and make it look nicer, e.g.,
using '\u2191' or some other shape in place of 'T'

http://unicode.org/charts/
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf

-Dan

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:

> I want to make a plot in polar coordinates. I want to use pch with
> shapes that do not have radial symmetry, so I want to rotate them such
> that they face inwards. I am using grid for my plotting, but I provide
> motivating examples in graphics.
>
> The following plot almost gets me what I want.
>
>   theta <- 2*pi*seq(0,7/8,1/8)
>   plot(cos(theta), sin(theta), pch=2, axes=F, asp=1)
>
> But I want the points to face inwards. I can do something like this with
> text, but I can set only a constant rotation
>
>   plot.new()
>   plot.window(c(-1,1),c(-1,1), asp=1)
>   text(cos(theta), sin(theta), 'Tom', srt
>  =runif(1,0,360))
>
> To rotate all of the points, I can do something like this.
>
>   plot.new()
>   plot.window(c(-1,1),c(-1,1), asp=1)
>   for (the.theta in theta)
>     text(cos(the.theta), sin(the.theta), 'Tom',
>          srt=(360/(2*pi))*(the.theta-(1/4)*2*pi))
>
> So perhaps I could use a "T" instead of a numeric pch and consequently
> do something like this.
>
>   plot.new()
>   plot.window(c(-1,1),c(-1,1), asp=1)
>   for (the.theta in theta)
>     text(cos(the.theta), sin(the.theta), 'T',
>          srt=(360/(2*pi))*(the.theta+(1/4)*2*pi))
>
> But that seems a bit silly.
>
> Is there a more declarative way of doing this, preferably in grid?
>
> Thanks
>
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Dan Dalthorp, PhD
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