Draw a box filled with symbols — symbolbox • plotrix

Draws a box on the current figure that is filled with symbols representing individual counts

Usage

symbolbox(x1,y1,x2,y2,tot,relw=0.5,fg=par("fg"),bg=par("bg"),box=TRUE,
  debug = TRUE,...)

Arguments

x1: left side of box
y1: bottom side of box
x2: right side of box
y2: top side of box
tot: total number of symbols to put in the box
relw: relative width (relative to height) of symbols
fg: foreground color
bg: background color
box: (logical) draw box border?
debug: debug output?
...: additional arguments to polygon() for drawing box

Details

tries to automatically figure out appropriate scaling to fit symbols into the box

Value

none; draws on the current figure

Author

Ben Bolker

See also

Examples

 plot(1:10,1:10,type="n")
 symbolbox(2,5,3,7,tot=20)
#> symbolbox: 2 5 3 7 20 
#> symbolbox: 0.558299 0.9931413 3 7 3 7 20 
 symbolbox(6,2,10,6,tot=50,fg="blue",bg="magenta")

#> symbolbox: 6 2 10 6 50 
#> symbolbox: 2.233196 1.986283 7 8 7 8 50