Rotate graph

[Rolf Lund]

Hello Statalist.

I have a very annoying problem that I simply cannot figure out; I need to rotate a graph made with the user-written program

radar

. I would like to rotate the graph by 22.5 degrees and I have been doing so by hand but I would like to automate the process - if it can be done in the radar.ado that would be great because I only need output in the rotated form. Before I go on, please have a look at the output:

input str3 oc double OC
oc1 .55
oc2 .41
oc3 .55
oc4 .38
oc5 .44
oc6 .27
oc7 .3
oc8 .54
end

radar oc, scheme(s2color) radial(OC)  lw(vvthick) /// 
legend(off) axelaboff lc(cyan*1.29) r(0 .25 .5 .75 1) /// 
labsize(zero) note("") graphregion(color(white))

This code gives me this graph:

The problem is, I would like it to look like this instead:

[William Lisowski]

Reviewing viewsource radar.ado leads me to conclude that there is no option - either to radar or to the underlying twoway command - to produce the result you want. Your only option would seem to be to use the source for radar.ado and modify it (creating your own version) in a new ado file to place its initial spoke at the location you want. It's not straightforward code, because while the graph looks as though it were plotted in a radial (angle and length) coordinate system, it is being drawn using an x-y coordinate system.