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- # Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
- #
- # This file is part of Octave.
- #
- # Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
- # later version.
- #
- # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
- # for more details.
- #
- # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
- # Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- function polar (x1, x2, fmt)
-
- # usage: polar (theta, rho, fmt)
- #
- # Make a 2D plot given polar the coordinates theta and rho.
- #
- # The optional third argument specifies the line type.
- #
- # See also: plot, semilogx, semilogy, loglog, mesh, contour, bar,
- # stairs, gplot, gsplot, replot, xlabel, ylabel, title
-
- set nologscale;
- set nopolar;
-
- if (nargin == 3)
- if (isstr (fmt))
- fmt = plot_opt ("polar", fmt);
- else
- error ("polar: third argument must be a string");
- endif
- polar_int_2 (x1, x2, fmt);
- elseif (nargin == 2)
- if (isstr (x2))
- fmt = plot_opt ("polar", x2);
- polar_int_1 (x1, fmt);
- else
- fmt = "";
- polar_int_2 (x1, x2, fmt);
- endif
- elseif (nargin == 1)
- fmt = "";
- polar_int_1 (x1, fmt);
- else
- usage ("polar (theta, rho, fmt)");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-