Hi, If you are curious you might like to try a highly experimental Grid function I wrote some time ago,
library(grid) source("http://gridextra.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/R/patternGrob.r") grid.newpage() grid.pattern(x=seq(1/6, 5/6, length=6), width=unit(1/8,"npc"), height=unit(0.5,"npc"), motif.width=unit(10, "mm"), pattern=c(1:6), orientation=45, motif.alpha=0.5, motif.cex=c(1, 0.5), motif.col=1:2, motif.fill=NA, gp=gpar(fill="blue", lwd=2, alpha=0.5), clip=T) If you really insist on using shading patterns despite Greg's sound advice, it might give you some inspiration. HTH, baptiste On 25 February 2010 04:34, St.Jeff Shang <mathsh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi to all, > > > > Here is a question which I cannot solve. Appreciate so much for any > suggestions! > > > > I have a squared region which is irregularly divided into many rectangular > patches. > > Each patch is associated with a value, and two patches possibly share a > common value. > > I hope to fill in each patch a pattern according to its value. For > instance, if a patch has value 1, then I fill in that patch with > pattern A; if it has value 2, then fill in it with pattern B,... > > > > The pattern is something like a rectangular region with certain colored > lines in it. For instance, pattern A may be a white rectangular region > filled in by two thick black lines; > > pattern B may be a white rectagular region filled in by 10 thick black > lines,... > > > > Is this available in matlab? I have serached "polygnon" in matlab user guide > and found a > > "fill function" may work, however, there is still a long way to finally > complete it. > > > > Many thanks again! > > Jeff > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ____________________ Baptiste Auguié Departamento de Química Física, Universidade de Vigo, Campus Universitario, 36310, Vigo, Spain tel: +34 9868 18617 http://webs.uvigo.es/coloides ______________________________________________ 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.