rect {base}R Documentation

Draw a Rectangle

Usage

rect(xleft, ybottom, xright, ytop,
     col=NULL, border=par("fg"), lty=NULL, lwd=par("lwd"), xpd=FALSE)

Arguments

xleft a vector (or scalar) of left x positions.
ybottom a vector (or scalar) of bottom y positions.
xright a vector (or scalar) of right x positions.
ytop a vector (or scalar) of top y positions.
col color(s) to fill the rectangle(s) with.
border color for rectangle border(s).
lty line type for borders; defaults to "solid".
lwd width for borders.
xpd logical (``expand''); if FLASE, everything is clipped to the plot region.

Details

The positions supplied, i.e., xleft, ..., are relative to the current plotting region. If the x-axis goes from 100 to 200 then xleft must be larger than 100 and xright must be less than 200.

See Also

box for the ``standard'' box around the plot; polygon and segments for flexible line drawing.

Examples

## set up the plot region:
plot(c(100, 250), c(300, 450), type = "n",
     main = "2 x 11 rectangles; `rect(100+i,300+i,  150+i,380+i)'")
i <- 4*(0:10)
## draw rectangles with bottom left (100, 300)+i  and top right (150, 380)+i
rect(100+i, 300+i, 150+i, 380+i, col=rainbow(11, start=.7,end=.1))
rect(240-i, 320+i, 250-i, 410+i, col=heat.colors(11), lwd=i/5)

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