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plotrix (version 2.2-7)
Various plotting functions
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Lots of plots, various labeling, axis and color scaling functions.
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install.packages('plotrix')
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2.2-7
License
GPL Version 2 or later.
Maintainer
Jim Lemon
Last Published
February 13th, 2026
Functions in plotrix (2.2-7)
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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.