textdiamond function

adds lines of text in a diamand-shaped box to a plot

adds one or more lines of text, in a diamond-shaped box.

textdiamond(mid, radx, rady = NULL, lwd = 1, shadow.size = 0.01,
            adj = c(0.5,0.5), lab = "", box.col = "white", 
            lcol = "black", shadow.col = "grey", angle = 0, ...)

Arguments

• mid: midpoint (x,y) of the box.
• radx: horizontal radius of the box.
• rady: vertical radius of the box.
• lwd: line width of line surrounding the box.
• shadow.size: relative size of shadow.
• adj: text adjustment.
• lab: one label or a vector string of labels to be added in box.
• box.col: fill color of the box.
• lcol: line color surrounding box.
• shadow.col: color of shadow.
• angle: rotation angle, degrees.
• ...: other arguments passed to function textplain .

Author(s)

Karline Soetaert karline.soetaert@nioz.nl

Examples

openplotmat(xlim = c(-0.1, 1.1), main = "textdiamond")

for (i in 1:10) 
  textdiamond(mid = runif(2), col = i, radx = 0.1, rady = 0.05,
              lab = LETTERS[i], cex = 2, angle = runif(1)*360)

Details

see shadowbox for specifications of the diamond-shaped box and its shadow.

See Also

textellipse, textempty,texthexa, textmulti, textplain, textrect, textround