NEWS

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plotrix 3.8-15

• Fixed 'brkdn.plot()' crashing when called with a two-term formula such as 'var ~ groups' (no 'obs' term). The formula handler now leaves 'obs' as NULL when no third term is present, and the downstream dispatch uses 'is.null()' (rather than 'is.na()') for the 'obs' and 'xlab' arguments, which default to NULL.
• Fixed 'histStack()' routing a single keyword 'legend.pos' (e.g. '"topright"') into the coordinate branch because of a misplaced parenthesis in 'length(legend.pos > 1)'. The check is now 'length(legend.pos) > 1'.

plotrix 3.8.14

• Fixed mis-handling of 'labels = ""' in 'polar.plot()' (issue #19).

plotrix 3.8-13 (2025-11-14)

• Fixed warnings in 'gap.plot()' when there were 2 gaps.
• Fixed 'pie3D()' which skipped very small slices (issue #9).
• Fixed 'polar.plot()' which put labels in the wrong place (PR #8).
• Fixed 'plotCI()' to allow 'pch' to be a vector (PR #11).
• Added arguments to 'gap.plot()' to support non-standard box types (PR #17).

plotrix 3.8-6

• Added pkgdown site at https://plotrix.github.io/plotrix/
• Changed 'Authors' to more descriptive 'Authors@R'.

plotrix 3.8-4 (2023-11-10)

• Duncan Murdoch has taken over as maintainer.
• Source has been moved to Github.
• A bug in the labels in 'pyramid.plot()' reported by 'biohisham' has been fixed.

plotrix 3.8-3 (2023-11-02)

• Prepared by the CRAN team: the package has been orphaned.
• Dr Jim Lemon passed away in September 2023.
• man/plotrix-package contained old version information duplicating the DESCRIPTION, so this has been commented out.
• panes.Rd attempted to plot symbols not available to the pdf() device used for R CMD check, which should have been in \donttest{}.
• This file was not in a documented format for a NEWS file.
• barlabels.Rd, draw.radial.line.Rd, textbox.Rd, thigmophobe.labels.Rd had 'samp' or 'link' where '\samp' or '\link' was meant, or '\samp' was missing before braces.
• soil.texture.Rd contained defunct URLs.
• Markup in CITATION has been modernized.

plotrix 3.8-2 (2021-09-08)

• fixed showcount option in sizetree
• log10 plotting added to radial.plot family (thanks to Keziah Conroy)
• added X and Y axis labels in gap.boxplot

plotrix 3.8-1 (2021-01-21)

• dropped makeDendrite, plotDendrite and sumDendrite functions

plotrix 3.7-8 (2020-04-16)

• Either axis in barp can now be omitted using the stax* arguments
• HH:MM to decimal hour conversion with hm2dec argument in clock24.plot
• Improved the placement of top.labels in pyramid.plot
• Fixed color problem in floating.pie when zero or NA present (thanks to Christoffer Flensburg)
• Fixed label problem in radial.plot.labels (thanks to Fabio Parracho Silva)
• Added gap_barp function that will eventually replace gap.barplot (thanks to Pamela Rueda-Cediel)

plotrix 3.7-7 (2019-12-05)

• twoord.plot now calls axis.POSIXct for the x-axis if appropriate fixed problem with conditional statements using "class"

plotrix 3.7-6 (2019-06-21)

• fixed color.axis when "at" values are outside the plot limits

plotrix 3.7-5 (2019-04-07)

• fixed the "empty list" bug in listDepth (thanks to Tingting Zhan)
• new and elegant thigmophobe function (thanks to Bill Venables)
• adjusted text size and placement in taylor.diagram for pos.cor=FALSE
• added makeDensityMatrix and densityGrid functions
• fixed functions that called 'barplot' (thanks to Martin Maechler)

plotrix 3.7-4 (2018-10-03)

• fixed the dimension loss in color.scale when xrange specified

plotrix 3.7-3 (2018-08-26)

• enhancement for gradient.rect function (thanks to Rod Lamming)
• fix for gantt.chart function (thanks to Andrius Getzinis)
• improvement to thigmophobe (thanks to Duncan Murdoch)
• fixed specified legend position in the barp function

plotrix 3.7-2 (2018-05-27)

• align plotrix-package.Rd with DESCRIPTION file
• added user-specified labels to bumpchart

plotrix 3.7-1 (2018-05-14)

• fix for the multivari function (thanks to Ulrike Groemping)
• added the plotH function (thanks to Derek Ogle)

plotrix 3.7 (2017-12-07)

• fixed brkdnNest due to changes arriving in R-3.4.3
• added the joyPlot function
• multivari plot function added (thanks to Ulrike Groemping)

plotrix 3.6-6 (2017-08-16)

• added fill arguments to draw.circle (thanks to David Winsemius)
• color2D.matplot now adds trailing zeros to values (thanks to Yuan Zhou)
• a few ehancements to gantt.chart (thanks to Suman Khanal)
• fixed the problem of asking for "l" type in polar.plot (thanks to Alex Pal)
• improved version of violin_plot (thanks to Darshan Baral)

plotrix 3.6-5 (2017-05-10)

• added the clustered.dotplots and violin_plot functions
• fixed the extra call to plot in soil.texture (thanks to Dylan Beaudette)
• added an option to radial.grid to allow it to display a blank grid
• fixed a mysterious problem with equating one argument to another in the box.heresy function

plotrix 3.6-4 (2016-12-30)

• fixed a typo in twoord.plot that caused an error when the range of the right axis went negative
• added the jiggle function
• changed the show.nulls argument in intersectDiagram to the nulls label
• fixed the "fill" problem in textbox (thanks to Kohleth Chia)
• added the placeLabels function
• enhancement to raw.means.plot (thanks to Henrik Singmann)
• added the binciW function, which fixes an error (thanks to Marc Girondot)
• fixed the bug with displaying dispersion in barNest

plotrix 3.6-3 (2016-07-21)

• fixed the errant y label in radial.pie
• fixed the problem with degrees/radians in draw.ellipse (thanks to Wouter vander Bijl)

plotrix 3.6-2 (2016-05-11)

• fixed the call to clip in rectFill (thanks to Cheng Zhou)
• fixed the incorrect placing of some text in arctext (thanks to Mark Heckmann)
• fixed the misbehaving y axis in brkdn.plot
• improved the circumferential labels in clock24.plot

plotrix 3.6-1 (2015-12-20)

• updated ehplot function (thanks to Robby Englemann)
• pyramid.plot now displays trailing zeros (thanks to Simon Thornley)
• problem with time/date x values in vectorField fixed
• colors and staggering added to plot.dendrite (thanks to Marna Wagley)

plotrix 3.6 (2015-10-20)

• fixed the missing left axis ticks in pyramid.plot (thanks to Jacob Clark)
• corrected addtable2plot for log y plots (thanks to Andrew Metcalfe)
• made the axis label and axis tick expansions the same in twoord.plot (thanks to wxj)
• made the axis label and tick labels the same color as the axis in twoord.plot
• added stack labels to the sizetree function
• added imports now necessary for R CMD check

plotrix 3.5-12 (2015-05-16)

• added choice of time axis (1 or 3) to gantt.chart (thanks to Mathias Collins)
• added outlined error bars to the dispersion function (thanks to Michael Eisenring)
• added a check for no variation in values to color.scale and color2D.matplot (thanks to Diego Calzolari)

plotrix 3.5-11 (2015-01-21)

• changed my email address

plotrix 3.5-10 (2014-11-09)

• added calculation method for SD in taylor.diagram (thanks to Melanie Moeller)
• added the assembly seat distribution functions "seats" and "election" (thanks to Barry Rowlingson and Duncan Murdoch)
• fixed the rectangle border problem in legendg (thanks to Christian Graul)

plotrix 3.5-9

• added tangential labels to radial.plot

plotrix 3.5-8

• fixed the line length bug in feather.plot (thanks to Dr. Kazama)

plotrix 3.5-6

• added optional radial lines to the radial.grid function (thanks to Darren Obbard)

plotrix 3.5-5 (2014-03-12)

• fixed the radial label bug in the radial.* functions (thanks to Mayeul Kauffmann)
• changed the circumferential label suppress value in the radial.* functions to NULL
• added the color.axis function
• added log correction for boxed.labels (thanks to Flemming Skjøth)
• fixed the breaks bug in histStack.default (thanks to Derek Ogle)
• added scaled bar widths to barNest

plotrix 3.5-3 (2014-01-23)

• fixed the problems with data frames and margins in battleship.plot (thanks to David Carlson)
• set xpd=TRUE for the boxed.labels function (thanks to Francois Rousseu)
• changed the pie.labels function to call text and adjust in x and y
• added plain text labelling to pie.labels
• tested for a current device in cluster.overplot and count.overplot (thanks to Markus Elze)

plotrix 3.5-2 (2013-11-11)

• added the get.tablepos function (thanks to Peter Murakami)
• passed the ... argument(s) to points and dispersion in brkdn.plot (thanks to Peter Mandeville)
• added text adjustment for the circumferential labels to radial.plot
• added the fill.corner function to do waffle plots (thanks to Zhao Jin)

plotrix 3.5-1 (2013-09-04)

• added the tsxpos function (thanks to Prof J C Nash)
• added a warning for off-axis labels to staxlab (thanks again to Prof Nash)
• added the arrows argument to bumpchart (thanks to Jie)
• added the axes argument to gap.boxplot (thanks to Shane Carey)

plotrix 3.4-8 (2013-06-15)

• fixed a minor bug in the ylim argument of gap.plot
• twoord.plot had some bugs cleaned up and now has a do.first argument
• fixed the missing background colors in addtable2plot
• allowed floating.pie to ignore zero and NA values (thanks to Jose deSantos)
• added the "stax" argument to gap.plot (thanks to Zheng Lu)
• fixed the problem with "yaxlab" in gap.barplot (thanks to Giorgio Galetti)
• added the "histStack" and "plotH" functions (thanks to Derek Ogle)

plotrix 3.4-7 (2013-04-13)

• added automatic spreading out to pie.labels
• fixed the "priorities extremes" bug in gantt.chart (thanks to Michael Motta)
• pyramid.plot now accepts NA values (thanks to Susumu Tanimura)
• radial.plot now does a rank clock plot (thanks to Don Dennerline)

plotrix 3.4-6 (2013-02-23)

• fixed the kite line positioning in kiteChart (thanks to Justin Dellinger)

plotrix 3.4-5 (2012-09-18)

• fixed the upside down character bug in arctext
• fixed the typo in the demo function for kite chart

plotrix 3.4-4 (2012-09-11)

• added the radial.grid function to the NAMESPACE

plotrix 3.4-3 (2012-07-29)

• minor bug that counted NAs in the propbrk function fixed

plotrix 3.4-2 (2012-06-22)

• Character spacing and placement improved in draw.arc and arctext (thanks to Ted Toal)
• radialtext and draw.radial.line functions added (also thanks to Ted Toal)
• weighted.hist now allows a custom X axis to be displayed (thanks to Ben Graf)
• Added the barlabels function

plotrix 3.4-1 (2012-05-19)

• Fixed the alignment problem in pie3D and rationalized angle increments
• Added the raw.means.plot functions contributed by Henrik Singmann
• vastly improved the speed of the sizetree function
• added the "varpos" argument to the kiteChart function - thanks to Nikolaus Lampardariou)

plotrix 3.4 (2012-04-01)

• added the border argument to the sizetree function
• multhist now returns all values from hist - thanks to John Muccigrosso
• fixed a bug in addtable2plot that appeared on plots with a log x axis
• fixed an almost invisible bug in drawSectorAnnulus - thanks to Denes
• added the "mar" argument to pie3D - thanks to Qinghua Zhao

plotrix 3.3-9 (2012-02-16)

• Fixed the bug in centipede.plot that I introduced in v3.3-8

plotrix 3.3-8 (2012-02-13)

• added the horizontal grid argument to centipede plot (thanks to Colin Wahl)

plotrix 3.3-7

• Fixed a color bug in plotCI (thanks to Daniel Wollschlaeger)

plotrix 3.3-6 (2012-02-03)

• Added the battleship plot (or Ford curve) thanks to Adam Maltese
• Added the box.heresy function - thanks to Gianni Lavaredo

plotrix 3.3-4

• Added the display.na argument to the dispersion function (thanks to Lasse Jacobsen)
• Removed the "Overall" bar in barNest when counts are being displayed

plotrix 3.3-3 (2011-12-28)

• Fixed a bug in the Hinton diagram option (thanks to Xavier Fernández i Marín)

plotrix 3.3-2 (2011-12-21)

• color2D.matplot will now display a Hinton diagram
• added padding for negative values in twoord.plot (thanks to Hans Borcher)
• added the maxEmptyRect function (thanks again to Hans Borchers)

plotrix 3.3-1 (2011-11-24)

• expanded the color options and added top labels in sizetree
• returned the frequency calculation in weighted.hist to what it used to be

plotrix 3.3 (2011-11-18)

• fixed the vertical lines color in addtable2plot
• fixed the frequency calculation in weighted.hist (thanks to Jarad Niemi)
• added the size_n_color plot

plotrix 3.2-8 (2011-11-02)

• added partitioning of intersections to intersectDiagram

plotrix 3.2-7

• bug fix for the examples in ladderplot

plotrix 3.2-6 (2011-09-29)

• added the ruginv function after fixing some encoding problems

plotrix 3.2-5 (2011-09-28)

• fixed a color assignment problem in plotCI
• added automatic color assignment in sizetree where all levels use the same colors

plotrix 3.2-4 (2011-09-06)

• Fixed the missing "shade" argument in pie3D (thanks to Jesse Brown)
• Added specifiable priority legend label and extreme descriptors (thanks to Pedro Reis)
• Added the (experimental) radial.pie function

plotrix 3.2-3 (2011-08-08)

• Fixed a few warnings from CRAN check (dotplot.mtb, gap.boxplot, symbolbarplot)
• Added the ruginv function (thanks to Peter Solymos)

plotrix 3.2-2 (2011-06-04)

• Added the labbePlot function (thanks to Whitney Melroy)
• Fixed the showall argument problem in the barNest function
• Fixed the problem with data frame input in the intersectDiagram function

plotrix 3.2-1 (2011-05-09)

• Added the sumbrk function to brkdnNest (thanks to Kevin Burnham)
• The dispbars function (just a call to dispersion) is now gone
• Added user specified text colors to boxed.labels (thanks to Thorn Thaler)
• Added the ehplot function (thanks to Robby, Michael & Felix)

plotrix 3.2 (2011-04-30)

• Rewrote intersectDiagram to use equidistant spacing
• Fixed a warning in oz.windrose.legend
• Fixed default ordinate scaling in twoord.plot
• Major rewrite of brkdnNest, barNest and drawNestedBars functions
• Major rewrite of color.scale function
• Added sliceArray function for barNest due to the above rewrite

plotrix 3.1-2 (2011-04-24)

• Fixed a minor bug in intersectDiagram

plotrix 3.1-1

• Border colors added to gantt.chart (thanks to Brandon Fessler)
• Extensive rewrite of the intersectDiagram function and helpers
• Rewrite of the dendroPlot function
• categoryReshape function added

plotrix 3.1 (2011-03-13)

• intersectDiagram zero instance levels fixed
• intersectDiagram now invisibly returns the list of intersections
• Spacing within levels in intersectDiagram simplified
• makeIntersectList now discards empty levels of intersection
• makeIntersectList color assignment fixed
• dendroPlot function added

plotrix 3.0-9 (2011-02-28)

• Fixed the priority coloring problem in gantt.chart
• Added optional vertical lines to addtable2plot (thanks to Bill Sperry)
• Fixed the overshooting y axis for certain values of y in barp

plotrix 3.0-8 (2011-02-08)

• Added semi-intelligent cell labelling to the color2D.matplot function

plotrix 3.0-7 (2011-01-26)

• Fixed the right ordinate alignment in twoord.plot

plotrix 3.0-6 (2011-01-10)

• Added the "barlabels" argument to drawNestedBars
• big fix for the makeDendrite, furc and plot.dendrite functions

plotrix 3.0-5 (2010-12-06)

• added Christophe Dutang's fix for the twoord.stackpoly function
• fixed the confidence limit problem in barNest (I sincerely hope)

plotrix 3.0-4 (2010-12-01)

• added semi-intelligent bar labelling to the sizetree function
• added yaxs="i" to the empty plot in twoord.plot (thanks to Giles Crane)
• added the Wilson binomial CI functions for brkdnNest

plotrix 3.0-3 (2010-11-18)

• added the ladderplot function (thanks to Peter Solymos)

plotrix 3.0-2 (2010-11-04)

• rewrote intersectDiagram to better display missing intersections
• added a correction for character expansion to boxed.labels
• fixed the count method for barNest

plotrix 3.0-1 (2010-11-03)

• competely rewrote the barNest family of functions
• removed labels for empty sets in intersectDiagram

plotrix 3.0 (2010-09-09)

• fixed some minor problems with oz.windrose (thanks to Brad Evans)
• added a 'locator' option to zoomInPlot (thanks to Greg Snow)
• added the 'padj' argument to stackpoly for more tick label control
• made the 'srt' argument work for both x and y axes in staxlab
• fixed two little bugs in thigmophobe (thanks to Stephen Milborrow)
• added the 'add' argument to radial.plot (thanks to Evan Daugharthy)

plotrix 2.9-5 (2010-07-05)

• added the kiteChart function
• added the "pos" argument to the getFigCtr function

plotrix 2.9-4 (2010-06-25)

• added a calculated default vector of axis tick positions to twoord.plot
• added a "mar" argument to the taylor.diagram function

plotrix 2.9-3 (2010-05-16)

• added the gamma.col argument to taylor.diagram (thanks to Julian Arnold)
• added the radial.labels function (thanks to Tali Vardi)
• added the multiple colors per labels to gantt.chart (thanks to Nicolas Immelman)
• added the rectFill function
• added an option to the barp function to use rectFill

plotrix 2.9-2 (2010-04-22)

• fixed the margin problem in staircase.plot
• fixed the default y-axis tick placement in barp

plotrix 2.9-1 (2010-04-13)

• fixed the "big gap" problem in the gap.plot function
• added the twoord.stackplot function (thanks to Christophe Dutang)

plotrix 2.9 (2010-04-02)

• added the panes function
• fixed the border bug in color2D.matplot
• fixed the indexing bug in drawNestedBars

plotrix 2.8-4 (2010-03-22)

• added the triax.fill function which necessitated...
• changed the initial plot call from triax.frame to triax.plot
• removed the "main" argument from triax.frame
• added brkdnNest to replace hierobrk
• rewrote barNest to suit brkdnNest
• added drawNestedBars for the display of barNest
• changed all remaining hierobarp functions to barNest

plotrix 2.8-3 (2010-02-21)

• radical rewrite of the pyramid.plot function
• fixed up barp example mistake
• fixed the title position in zoomInPlot
• rewrote the hierobarp function as barNest

plotrix 2.8-2 (2010-02-12)

• added the label.cex argument to the gantt.chart function
• changed the name of the hierobarp function to barNest

plotrix 2.8-1

• added the calculation of proportions to hierobarp

plotrix 2.8 (2010-01-22)

• added the cex argument to the staircase.plot function
• added a bit to the plotCI function examples
• changed \code tags to \samp and removed formatting from \link tags
• added the ylog argument to the barp function (thanks to Fatima Kreusch)
• added the legendg function (thanks to Primoz Peterlin)
• removed the Piper diagram functions until they run correctly

plotrix 2.7-2 (2009-10-26)

• added the axislab.cex argument to the twoord.plot function

plotrix 2.7-1 (2009-10-11)

• added the getMarginWidth function
• added the bracketing lines and labels to hierobarp
• added the hierobarp.svymean and hierobarp.svyprop functions
• added the lwd argument to stackpoly (thanks to Vaclav Varvarovsky)
• included an example to show how to use gantt.chart without dates
• included an example of histogram + density curve in twoord.plot

plotrix 2.7 (2009-08-19)

• added the getFigCtr function
• removed the final grouping lines from hierobarp

plotrix 2.6-4 (2009-07-19)

• fixed the bug in hierobrk and hierobarp that got the order of breakdown factors wrong

plotrix 2.6-3

• fixed the bug in gap.plot that lost the high values

plotrix 2.6-2

• complete rewrite of the hierobarp and hierobrk functions
• rewrite of barhier function and name changed to sizetree

plotrix 2.6-1 (2009-06-14)

• Minor bug fix in the gap.plot function. ChangesiIn Version 2.6
• Improved bar/line plotting in the twoord.plot function.
• Added the fullaxis function.

plotrix 2.5-5 (2009-05-04)

• Changed the default symbol in count.overplot to "1".
• Added bar plotting to the twoord.plot function.
• Added fill between the confidence lines to the dispersion function.
• Added the bumpchart function. (Thanks to Andreas Christofferson for the idea)
• Added the spreadout function to spread out cramped labels.
• Added table cell size correction for the cex argument. (Thanks to Brian Diggs for the patch)

plotrix 2.5-4 (2009-03-19)

• Fixed the bug in dotplot.mtb function.

plotrix 2.5-3 (2009-03-16)

• Introduced the hierobarp function.
• Introduced the zoomInPlot function.
• New version of dotplot.mtb (with bug)

plotrix 2.5-2 (2009-02-19)

• and earlier. You don't expect me to remember all that, do you?