On 02/10/2010 01:20 AM, Karin Lagesen wrote:
I have a data set which I would like to plot as a set of concentric
circles. The data represent a count of the number of characteristics
shared by various elements - an example would look like this:
1 100
2 75
3 50
4 25
I.e. all four sets share 25 characteristics, three of them share 50
characteristics, and so on.
I would like to plot these as concentric circles, with the circle size
preferentially being proportional to the size of the number of elements
(this is not a must, however). I would also like the colors of the circles
to become stronger/deeper as we progress to the innermost circle (which
would be the one containing the number of characteristics shared by all
four).
Can somebody point me to what I can use to do this?
Hi Karin,
As Barry noted, you can use draw.circle in the plotrix package:
plot(0,xlim=c(-100,100),ylim=c(-100,100),type="n",axes=FALSE,
main="Set intersection plot",xlab="",ylab="")
par(xpd=TRUE)
draw.circle(0,0,100,col="#ffccff")
draw.circle(0,0,75,col="#ff99ff")
draw.circle(0,0,50,col="#ff44ff")
draw.circle(0,0,25,col="#ff00ff")
par(xpd=FALSE)
These aren't transparent, but if you really need transparency, just add
the alpha level to the colors. Look at boxed.labels to label the circles.
Jim
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