Rectangle R centered at (x,y) with width 2w and height 2h is given by x1=x-w y1=y-h x2=x+w y2=y-h x3=x+w y3=y+h x4=x-w y4=y+h polygon(c(x1,x2,x3,x4),c(y1,y2,y3,y4))
Rotating a point (u,v) at (0,0) by theta degree is given by matrix [cos(theta),-sin(theta) sin(theta),cos(theta)] so we have a new point (u*cos(theta)-v*sin(theta),u*sin(theta)+v*cos(theta)). Hence rotated R by theta at (x,y) is given by x.rotated = c(x + (x1-x)*cos(theta)-(y1-y)*sin(theta), x + (x2-x)*cos(theta)-(y2-y)*sin(theta), x + (x3-x)*cos(theta)-(y3-y)*sin(theta), x + (x4-x)*cos(theta)-(y4-y)*sin(theta)) y.rotated = c(y + (x1-x)*sin(theta)+(y1-y)*cos(theta), y + (x2-x)*sin(theta)+(y2-y)*cos(theta), y + (x3-x)*sin(theta)+(y3-y)*cos(theta), y + (x4-x)*sin(theta)+(y4-y)*cos(theta)) polygon(x.rotated,y.rotated) But it turns out to be a parallelogram with angles not equal to 90, not a rectangle. See R code below. Any way to improve this so that the rotated rectangle looks like a rectangle? Thanks, -james plot(1:10,1:10,xlim=c(1,20),ylim=c(1,40),type="n", main = "Rotated rectangle looks like a ") ## a rect at (10,20) with w = 3 and h = 2 x = 10 y = 20 w = 3 h = 2 x1=x-w y1=y-h x2=x+w y2=y-h x3=x+w y3=y+h x4=x-w y4=y+h polygon(c(x1,x2,x3,x4),c(y1,y2,y3,y4),border="blue") ##Rotate it at (10,10) by 45 degree theta = 45/180*pi x.rotated = c(10 + (x1-10)*cos(theta)-(y1-20)*sin(theta), 10 + (x2-10)*cos(theta)-(y2-20)*sin(theta), 10 + (x3-10)*cos(theta)-(y3-20)*sin(theta), 10 + (x4-10)*cos(theta)-(y4-20)*sin(theta)) y.rotated = c(20 + (x1-10)*sin(theta)+(y1-20)*cos(theta), 20 + (x2-10)*sin(theta)+(y2-20)*cos(theta), 20 + (x3-10)*sin(theta)+(y3-20)*cos(theta), 20 + (x4-10)*sin(theta)+(y4-20)*cos(theta)) polygon(x.rotated,y.rotated,border="red") > On 06/04/2010 01:21 AM, g...@ucalgary.ca wrote: >> boxed.labels draw text with box well. >> But, the box cannot be shadowed and srt = 45 seems not to work: >> text is rotated but the box does not. >> polygon.shadow can rotate and shadow but have to calculate its >> dimensions, >> based on the text length and size. >> Do you have any other way to draw text with rotated and shadowed box? > > The srt argument was intended to allow the user to rotate the text in 90 > degree increments, and the box just changes shape to fit whatever is in > it. The underlying function that draws the box (rect) doesn't have a > rotation argument. It would be possible to write a special function > using polygon, just do the calculations for box size and then rotate the > text with srt= and the polygon by transforming the coordinates of the > vertices, as long as the default justification (center) is used. I can't > do this right at the moment, but if you are really stuck I might be able > to do it in the near future. > > Jim > > > ______________________________________________ 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.