I have been making some segment plots with five variables. They work great, 
especially when I used a different scale function, which scaled them by area of 
the circle rather than radius


scale <- function(x, Mr = 1 , Mx = 100) { ((x/Mx)^.5)*Mr}

Where x is the the value, Mr is the Maximum radius, and Mx is the maximum data 
value. You could change the exponent .5 to .57 if you wanted Flannery 
compensation.


My problem is that I want the print size of these proportional symbols to be 
the same regardless of the number of data points

as in this example, where exporting these two plots as PDF(which have been 
scaled) will produce different size symbols for the same value, when compared 
side by side.I've tried manually setting the ncol and nrow attributes, and it 
still produces different results for the data sets. 

stars(large[2:6], draw.segments = TRUE, labels = large$size,scale = FALSE, 
flip.labels = TRUE, axes = TRUE,)
stars(small[2:6], draw.segments = TRUE, labels = small$size,scale = FALSE, 
flip.labels = TRUE, axes = TRUE,)


Thanks!


small <-
structure(list(size = c(5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50), one = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), two = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), three = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), four = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), five = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548)), .Names = c("size", "one", 
"two", "three", "four", "five"), row.names = c(NA, 7L), class = "data.frame")


large <-
structure(list(size = c(5L, 10L, 15L, 20L, 25L, 30L, 50L, 5L, 
10L, 15L, 20L, 25L, 30L, 50L, 5L, 10L, 15L, 20L, 25L, 30L, 50L, 
5L, 10L, 15L, 20L, 25L, 30L, 50L), one = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 
0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 
0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 
0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 
0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 
0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), two = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 
0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 
0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 
0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 
0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 
0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), three = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 
0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 
0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 
0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 
0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 
0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), four = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 
0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 
0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 
0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 
0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 
0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548), five = c(0.223606797749979, 
0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 
0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 
0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 
0.707106781186548, 0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 
0.447213595499958, 0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548, 
0.223606797749979, 0.316227766016838, 0.387298334620742, 0.447213595499958, 
0.5, 0.547722557505166, 0.707106781186548)), .Names = c("size", 
"one", "two", "three", "four", "five"), row.names = c(NA, -28L
), class = "data.frame")

______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Reply via email to