adds curved arrow between two points

Connects two points with an ellipsoid line and adds an arrowhead at a certain distance

curvedarrow(from, to, lwd = 2, lty = 1, lcol = "black", 
            arr.col = lcol, arr.pos = 0.5, curve = 1, dr = 0.01, 
            endhead = FALSE, segment = c(0, 1), ...)

Arguments

from

coordinates (x,y) of the point *from* which to draw arrow.

to

coordinates (x,y) of the point *to* which to draw arrow.

lwd

line width.

lty

line type.

lcol

line color.

arr.col

arrowhead color.

arr.pos

relative position of arrowhead.

curve

relative size of curve (fraction of points distance) - see details.

dr

size of segments, in radians, to draw ellipse (decrease for smoother).

endhead

if TRUE: the arrow line stops at the arrowhead; default = FALSE.

segment

if not c(0,1): then the arrow line will cover only part of the requested path, e.g. if segment = c(0.2,0.8), it will start 0.2 from from and till 0.8.

...

arguments passed to function Arrows.

Value

default

coordinates (x,y) where arrowhead is drawn.

Author

Karline Soetaert <karline.soetaert@nioz.nl>

Details

A curved arrow is drawn between two points '(from, to)'

The position of the arrowhead, is set with arr.pos, a value between 0(start point) and 1(endpoint)

The line curvature is set with curve which expresses the ellipse radius as a fraction of the distance between the two points. For instance, curve=0.5 will draw an ellepse with small radius half of a circle.

The type of the arrowhead is set with arr.type which can take the values:

  • "none" : skips the drawing of arrows.

  • "simple" : uses comparable R function arrows.

  • "triangle": uses filled triangle.

  • "curved" : draws arrowhead with curved edges.

  • "circle" : draws circular head.

  • "ellipse" : draws ellepsoid head.

  • "T" : draws T-shaped (blunt) head.

The size of the arrow head can be specified with the arguments arr.length and arr.width.

See Arrowhead from package shape for details on arrow head

See also

straightarrow, segmentarrow, bentarrow, selfarrow, treearrow, splitarrow,

arrows: the comparable R function,

Arrows: more complicated arrow function from package shape.

Examples

openplotmat(main = "curvedarrow")

pos <- coordinates(pos = 4, my = 0.2)
text(pos, LETTERS[1:4], cex = 2)

for (i in 1:3) 
  curvedarrow(from = pos[1, ] + c(0,-0.05), to = pos[i+1, ] + c(0,-0.05),
              curve = 0.5, arr.pos = 1)
for (i in 1:3) 
  curvedarrow(from = pos[1, ] + c(0, 0.05), to = pos[i+1, ] + c(0, 0.05),
              curve = -0.25, arr.adj = 1, arr.pos = 0.5, 
              arr.type = "triangle", arr.col = "blue")