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plotrix (version 2.2-7)

Various plotting functions

Description

Lots of plots, various labeling, axis and color scaling functions.

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install.packages('plotrix')

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Version

2.2-7

License

GPL Version 2 or later.

Maintainer

Jim Lemon

Last Published

February 13th, 2026

Functions in plotrix (2.2-7)

axis.break

Place a "break" mark on an axis
color.id

Identify closest match to a color
gradient.rect

Display a rectangle filled with an arbitrary color gradient.
hexagon

Draw a hexagon
bin.wind.records

Classify wind direction and speed records.
std.error

Calculate standard error of the mean
centipede.plot

Display a centipede plot
draw.circle

Draw a circle.
get.soil.texture

Enter soil texture data.
thigmophobe

Find the direction away from the closest point
oz.windrose

Display an Australian wind rose.
cluster.overplot

Shift overlying points into clusters.
draw.tilted.sector

Display a 3D pie sector
taylor.diagram

Taylor diagram
cylindrect

Display an apparent cylinder
gap.barplot

Display a barplot with a gap (missing range) on one axis
pie3D

Display a 3D pie chart
plotCI

Plot confidence intervals/error bars
multhist

Plot a multiple histogram, as a barplot
pie.labels

Place labels on a pie chart
brkdn.plot

A point/line plotting routine
symbolbarplot

barplot filled with symbols
arctext

Display text on a circular arc.
corner.loc

Find corner locations and display a label
triax.abline

Lines for triangle plot
soil.texture

Soil texture triangle plot
clean.args

Remove inappropriate arguments from an argument list
color.scale

Turn values into colors.
oz.windrose.legend

Display an Australian wind rose legend.
sizeplot

Plot with repeated symbols by size
rescale

Scale numbers into a new range.
color.gradient

Calculate an arbitrary sequence of colors.
gap.plot

Display a plot with one or two gaps (missing ranges) on one axis
fan.plot

Display a fan plot.
triax.points

Triangle plot points
clock24.plot

Plot values on a 24 hour "clockface".
color2D.matplot

Display a numeric matrix as color matrix
boxed.labels

Place labels in boxes
polar.plot

Plot values on a circular grid of 0 to 360 degrees.
radial.plot

Plot values on a circular grid of 0 to 2*pi radians.
color.scale.lines

Line segments with scaled colors.
spread.labels

Spread labels for irregularly spaced values
staxlab

Place staggered labels on an axis
thigmophobe.labels

Place labels away from the nearest point
triax.frame

Triangle plot frame
color.legend

Legend matching categories or values to colors
dispbars

Dispersion bars
triax.plot

Triangle plot
textbox

Add text box
emptyspace

Find an empty space on a plot.
feather.plot

Display vectors along a horizontal reference line.
axis.mult

Display an axis with values having a multiplier
get.breaks

Get the breakpoints for a weighted histogram
get.triprop

Enter three proportion data - usually soil textures.
barp

A bar plotting routine
get.segs

Calculate the midpoints and limits for a centipede plot
gap.boxplot

Display a boxplot with a gap (missing range)
get.gantt.info

Gather the information to create a Gantt chart
polygon.shadow

Display a shadow effect for an arbitrary polygon
symbolbox

Draw a box filled with symbols
count.overplot

Show overlying points as counts
gantt.chart

Display a Gantt chart
floating.pie

Display a floating pie chart
pyramid.plot

Pyramid plot
soils

Soil texture data from 125 soils
pie3D.labels

Display labels on a 3D pie chart
draw.arc

Draw arc
multsymbolbox

Draw boxes filled with symbols
weighted.hist

Display a weighted histogram
smoothColors

Build a vector of color values.