PlotTools: Extended Tools for Continuous Legends, Polygon Manipulation, and Visual Display of Categorical Data

Annotate plots with legends for continuous variables and colour spectra using the base graphics plotting tools; and manipulate irregular polygons. Includes palettes for colour-blind viewers.

Version:	0.4.0
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, sp, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), vdiffr (≥ 1.0.0)
Published:	2026-01-29
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.PlotTools
Author:	Martin R. Smith [aut, cre, cph], Martin Krzywinski [ctb]
Maintainer:	Martin R. Smith <martin.smith at durham.ac.uk>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ms609/PlotTools/issues/
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://ms609.github.io/PlotTools/, https://github.com/ms609/PlotTools/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Citation:	PlotTools citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	PlotTools results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

PlotTools.html , PlotTools.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	PlotTools_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: PlotTools_0.4.0.zip, r-release: PlotTools_0.4.0.zip, r-oldrel: PlotTools_0.4.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): PlotTools_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): PlotTools_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): PlotTools_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): PlotTools_0.4.0.tgz
Old sources:	PlotTools archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	Quartet, Ternary, TreeSearch, TreeTools
Reverse suggests:	Rogue, TreeDist

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