adds lines of text in an hexagonal box to a plot

adds one or more lines of text, centered around "mid" in an hexagonal box.

texthexa(mid, radx, rady = radx*length(lab), 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

Karline Soetaert <karline.soetaert@nioz.nl>

Details

see shadowbox for specifications of the hexangular box and its shadow

See also

textdiamond, textellipse, textempty, textmulti, textplain, textrect, textround

Examples

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

  for (i in 1:20) 
    texthexa(mid = runif(2), angle = runif(1)*360, col = i,
             box.col = grey(0.95), radx = 0.1, rady = 0.05,
             lab = LETTERS[i], cex = 2)