I like to explore the graphics features of R.  Base graphics, ggplot2 are my favourites. On  other graphics packages, I haven’t used plotrix much. I am currently exploring grid package.

Raptor

First one is using ggplot2. (you could also do this using base graphics).

##
##reading raptor cordinates
rapt = read.csv("http://vinux.in/viz/misc/raptor.csv")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(data=rapt) + 
  geom_polygon(aes(x=V1, y=V2, group=group), colour=I("gray") ) + 
  theme_bw() + 
  scale_x_continuous(limits = c(0, 400)) +   
  scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, 250)) +
  geom_text(aes(100,230, label="Velociraptor"))+
  theme(axis.line=element_blank(), 
       axis.text.x=element_blank(),  
       axis.text.y=element_blank(), 
       axis.ticks=element_blank(), 
       axis.title.x=element_blank(),    
       axis.title.y=element_blank(), 
       legend.position="none", 
       panel.background=element_blank(), 
       panel.border=element_blank(), 
       panel.grid.major=element_blank(), 
       panel.grid.minor=element_blank(), 
       plot.background=element_blank())

It would be more fun if we can do animation on raptors. You can find animated version of raptor here. Rcode.

Cake

Here is the easy one. This one is a cake using plotrix package.

##
library(plotrix)
candle = function(pos)
{
x=pos[1]
y=pos[2]
rect(x,y,x+.2,y+2,col="red")
#  polygon(c(x-.2,x+.4,x+.1,x-.2), c(y+2,y+2,y+2.4,y+2),col="orange")
polygon(c(x+.05,x-.1,x+.1,x+.3,x+.15,x+0.05), c(y+2,y+2.3,y+2.6,y+2.3,y+2,y+2),col="orange")

}

cake_colour="#FF3399"
plot(c(0,10), c(0,10),type="n", bty="n",xaxt="n",yaxt="n", main="Cake", xlab="",ylab="")
draw.ellipse(5,2,col=cake_colour,a=4.4,b=1.7,border=1)
draw.ellipse(5,2,col=cake_colour,a=4,b=1.4,border=1)
rect(1,2,9,5,col=cake_colour,border=cake_colour)
lines(c(1,1),c(2,5))
lines(c(9,9),c(2,5))
draw.ellipse(5,5,col=cake_colour,a=4,b=1.4)

candle(c(2.5,4.5))
candle(c(3,5))
candle(c(4,4.5))
candle(c(5,5))
candle(c(6,4.5))
candle(c(7,5.2))

I have already discussed this graphs in my favourite forum talkstats.  I dedicated both the graphs to my friends in the forum. You can find more fun graphs in this forum.

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