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Spider (radar) Chart

03 Sep 2008 (Updated 04 Sep 2008)

Plots a radar (spider) chart (no need of circle function here)

File Information
Description	Takes a numeric verctor and cell string vector and plots a spider chart (One data set is allowed)
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)

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Everyone's Tags	chart, graph, graphics, plotting, radar, specialized, specialized plot, spider
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Comments and Ratings (1)
03 Sep 2008	John D'Errico	The function was uploaded as radarplot_1.m, so the name is inconsistent with the help or examples. Clearly the author created a second version of this code, but chose to keep both of them. Sorry, but two versions on the file exchange just adds unnecessary dead wood. Delete the older version, and rename this one to have the correct name. As for this version, the help is marginal, certainly not verbose. It does include an example, which is good. I found error checks, as well as internal comments. All good. As for the code itself, mlint points out a failure to preallocate several arrays that are then grown inside a loop of known size. This makes for inefficient code in MATLAB. (Use mlint! Pay attention to what it says. This can often greatly improve your code.) Finally, why is this code any better than the spiderplot utility already on the file exchange? (I'll suggest the answer may lie in the requirement of that code for the statistics toolbox.)

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Updates
04 Sep 2008	Faster code

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
specialized	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
plotting	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
spider	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
radar	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
chart	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
graphics	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
specialized plot	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24
graph	Tal Shir	22 Oct 2008 10:17:24

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