It's Not What You Draw, It's What You Don't Draw

Authors

Paul Murrell, The University of Auckland

Date of this Version

12-2012

Document Type

Article

Citation

The R Journal (December 2012) 4(2)

Comments

Copyright 2012, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported

Abstract

The R graphics engine has new support for drawing complex paths via the functions polypath() and grid.path(). This article explains what is meant by a complex path and demonstrates the usefulness of complex paths in drawing non-trivial shapes, logos, customised data symbols, and maps.