NEWS

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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?