Diagrama de contorno polar interpolado R

Estoy intentando escribir un trazado polar de contorno en R a partir de datos de puntos interpolados. En otras palabras, tengo datos en coordenadas polares con un valor de magnitud que me gustaría trazar y mostrar valores interpolados. Me gustaría producir parcelas similares a las siguientes (producidas en OriginPro):

Mi intento más cercano en R a este punto es básicamente:

### Convert polar -> cart
# ToDo #

### Dummy data
x = rnorm(20)
y = rnorm(20)
z = rnorm(20)

### Interpolate
library(akima)
tmp = interp(x,y,z)

### Plot interpolation
library(fields)
image.plot(tmp)

### ToDo ###
#Turn off all axis
#Plot polar axis ontop

Lo que produce algo como:

Si bien obviamente esto no va a ser el producto final, ¿es esta la mejor manera de crear trazados polares de contorno en R?

No puedo encontrar nada sobre el tema que no sea una lista de correo de archivodiscusión del 2008. Supongo que no estoy completamente dedicado a usar R para los gráficos (aunque ahí es donde tengo los datos), pero me opongo a la creación manual. Entonces, si hay otro idioma con esta capacidad, sugiéralo (vi elEjemplo de Python).

EDITAR

Con respecto a la sugerencia de usar ggplot2: parece que no puedo obtener la rutina geom_tile para trazar datos interpolados en coordenadas de polar. He incluido un código a continuación que ilustra dónde estoy. Puedo trazar el original en cartesiano y polar, pero solo puedo obtener los datos interpolados para trazar en cartesiano. Puedo trazar los puntos de interpolación en polar usando geom_point, pero no puedo extender ese enfoque a geom_tile. Mi única suposición fue que esto está relacionado con el orden de los datos (es decir, geom_tile está esperando datos ordenados). He intentado cada iteración que puedo pensar en ordenar los datos en azimut ascendente / descendente y cenit sin cambios.

## Libs
library(akima)
library(ggplot2)

## Sample data in az/el(zenith)
tmp = seq(5,355,by=10)
geoms <- data.frame(az = tmp,
                    zen = runif(length(tmp)),
                    value = runif(length(tmp)))
geoms$az_rad = geoms$az*pi/180
## These points plot fine
ggplot(geoms)+geom_point(aes(az,zen,colour=value))+
    coord_polar()+
    scale_x_continuous(breaks=c(0,45,90,135,180,225,270,315,360),limits=c(0,360))+
    scale_colour_gradient(breaks=seq(0,1,by=.1),low="black",high="white")

## Need to interpolate - most easily done in cartesian
x = geoms$zen*sin(geoms$az_rad)
y = geoms$zen*cos(geoms$az_rad)
df.ptsc = data.frame(x=x,y=y,z=geoms$value)
intc = interp(x,y,geoms$value,
             xo=seq(min(x), max(x), length = 100),
             yo=seq(min(y), max(y), length = 100),linear=FALSE)
df.intc = data.frame(expand.grid(x=intc$x,y=intc$y),
               z=c(intc$z),value=cut((intc$z),breaks=seq(0,1,.1)))
## This plots fine in cartesian coords
ggplot(df.intc)+scale_x_continuous(limits=c(-1.1,1.1))+
                scale_y_continuous(limits=c(-1.1,1.1))+
                geom_point(data=df.ptsc,aes(x,y,colour=z))+
                scale_colour_gradient(breaks=seq(0,1,by=.1),low="white",high="red")
ggplot(df.intc)+geom_tile(aes(x,y,fill=z))+
                scale_x_continuous(limits=c(-1.1,1.1))+
                scale_y_continuous(limits=c(-1.1,1.1))+
                geom_point(data=df.ptsc,aes(x,y,colour=z))+
                scale_colour_gradient(breaks=seq(0,1,by=.1),low="white",high="red")

## Convert back to polar
int_az = atan2(df.intc$x,df.intc$y)
int_az = int_az*180/pi
int_az = unlist(lapply(int_az,function(x){if(x<0){x+360}else{x}}))
int_zen = sqrt(df.intc$x^2+df.intc$y^2)
df.intp = data.frame(az=int_az,zen=int_zen,z=df.intc$z,value=df.intc$value)
## Just to check
az = atan2(x,y)
az = az*180/pi
az = unlist(lapply(az,function(x){if(x<0){x+360}else{x}}))
zen = sqrt(x^2+y^2)
## The conversion looks correct [[az = geoms$az, zen = geoms$zen]]

## This plots the interpolated locations
ggplot(df.intp)+geom_point(aes(az,zen))+coord_polar()
## This doesn't track to geom_tile
ggplot(df.intp)+geom_tile(aes(az,zen,fill=value))+coord_polar()
Resultados finales

Finalmente tomé el código de la respuesta aceptada (gráficos base) y actualicé el código. Agregué un método de interpolación por spline de placa delgada, una opción para extrapolar o no, superposiciones de puntos de datos y la capacidad de hacer colores continuos o colores segmentados para la superficie interpolada. Vea los ejemplos a continuación.

PolarImageInterpolate <- function(
    ### Plotting data (in cartesian) - will be converted to polar space.
    x, y, z, 
    ### Plot component flags
    contours=TRUE,   # Add contours to the plotted surface
    legend=TRUE,        # Plot a surface data legend?
    axes=TRUE,      # Plot axes?
    points=TRUE,        # Plot individual data points
    extrapolate=FALSE, # Should we extrapolate outside data points?
    ### Data splitting params for color scale and contours
    col_breaks_source = 1, # Where to calculate the color brakes from (1=data,2=surface)
                                                 # If you know the levels, input directly (i.e. c(0,1))
    col_levels = 10,    # Number of color levels to use - must match length(col) if 
                                        #col specified separately
    col = rev(heat.colors(col_levels)),  # Colors to plot
    contour_breaks_source = 1, # 1=z data, 2=calculated surface data
                                                        # If you know the levels, input directly (i.e. c(0,1))
    contour_levels = col_levels+1, # One more contour break than col_levels (must be
                                                                # specified correctly if done manually
    ### Plotting params
    outer.radius = round_any(max(sqrt(x^2+y^2)),5,f=ceiling),  
    circle.rads = pretty(c(0,outer.radius)), #Radius lines
    spatial_res=1000, #Resolution of fitted surface
    single_point_overlay=0, #Overlay "key" data point with square 
                                                    #(0 = No, Other = number of pt)
    ### Fitting parameters
    interp.type = 1, #1 = linear, 2 = Thin plate spline 
    lambda=0){ #Used only when interp.type = 2

minitics <- seq(-outer.radius, outer.radius, length.out = spatial_res)
# interpolate the data
    if (interp.type ==1 ){
    Interp <- akima:::interp(x = x, y = y, z = z, 
                    extrap = extrapolate, 
                    xo = minitics, 
                    yo = minitics, 
                    linear = FALSE)
    Mat <- Interp[[3]]
    }
    else if (interp.type == 2){
        library(fields)
        grid.list = list(x=minitics,y=minitics)
        t = Tps(cbind(x,y),z,lambda=lambda)
        tmp = predict.surface(t,grid.list,extrap=extrapolate)
        Mat = tmp$z
    }
    else {stop("interp.type value not valid")}

# mark cells outside circle as NA
markNA <- matrix(minitics, ncol = spatial_res, nrow = spatial_res) 
Mat[!sqrt(markNA ^ 2 + t(markNA) ^ 2) < outer.radius] <- NA 

    ### Set contour_breaks based on requested source
    if ((length(contour_breaks_source == 1)) & (contour_breaks_source[1] == 1)){
        contour_breaks = seq(min(z,na.rm=TRUE),max(z,na.rm=TRUE),
                            by=(max(z,na.rm=TRUE)-min(z,na.rm=TRUE))/(contour_levels-1))
    }
    else if ((length(contour_breaks_source == 1)) & (contour_breaks_source[1] == 2)){
        contour_breaks = seq(min(Mat,na.rm=TRUE),max(Mat,na.rm=TRUE),
                            by=(max(Mat,na.rm=TRUE)-min(Mat,na.rm=TRUE))/(contour_levels-1))
    } 
    else if ((length(contour_breaks_source) == 2) & (is.numeric(contour_breaks_source))){
        contour_breaks = pretty(contour_breaks_source,n=contour_levels)
        contour_breaks = seq(contour_breaks_source[1],contour_breaks_source[2],
                            by=(contour_breaks_source[2]-contour_breaks_source[1])/(contour_levels-1))
    }
    else {stop("Invalid selection for \"contour_breaks_source\"")}

    ### Set color breaks based on requested source
    if ((length(col_breaks_source) == 1) & (col_breaks_source[1] == 1))
        {zlim=c(min(z,na.rm=TRUE),max(z,na.rm=TRUE))}
    else if ((length(col_breaks_source) == 1) & (col_breaks_source[1] == 2))
        {zlim=c(min(Mat,na.rm=TRUE),max(Mat,na.rm=TRUE))}
    else if ((length(col_breaks_source) == 2) & (is.numeric(col_breaks_source)))
        {zlim=col_breaks_source}
    else {stop("Invalid selection for \"col_breaks_source\"")}

# begin plot
    Mat_plot = Mat
    Mat_plot[which(Mat_plot<zlim[1])]=zlim[1]
    Mat_plot[which(Mat_plot>zlim[2])]=zlim[2]
image(x = minitics, y = minitics, Mat_plot , useRaster = TRUE, asp = 1, axes = FALSE, xlab = "", ylab = "", zlim = zlim, col = col)

# add contours if desired
if (contours){
    CL <- contourLines(x = minitics, y = minitics, Mat, levels = contour_breaks)
    A <- lapply(CL, function(xy){
                lines(xy$x, xy$y, col = gray(.2), lwd = .5)
            })
}
    # add interpolated point if desired
    if (points){
            points(x,y,pch=4)
}
    # add overlay point (used for trained image marking) if desired
    if (single_point_overlay!=0){
            points(x[single_point_overlay],y[single_point_overlay],pch=0)
    }

# add radial axes if desired
if (axes){ 
    # internals for axis markup
    RMat <- function(radians){
        matrix(c(cos(radians), sin(radians), -sin(radians), cos(radians)), ncol = 2)
    }    

    circle <- function(x, y, rad = 1, nvert = 500){
        rads <- seq(0,2*pi,length.out = nvert)
        xcoords <- cos(rads) * rad + x
        ycoords <- sin(rads) * rad + y
        cbind(xcoords, ycoords)
    }

    # draw circles
    if (missing(circle.rads)){
        circle.rads <- pretty(c(0,outer.radius))
    }

    for (i in circle.rads){
        lines(circle(0, 0, i), col = "#66666650")
    }

    # put on radial spoke axes:
    axis.rads <- c(0, pi / 6, pi / 3, pi / 2, 2 * pi / 3, 5 * pi / 6)
    r.labs <- c(90, 60, 30, 0, 330, 300)
    l.labs <- c(270, 240, 210, 180, 150, 120)

    for (i in 1:length(axis.rads)){ 
        endpoints <- zapsmall(c(RMat(axis.rads[i]) %*% matrix(c(1, 0, -1, 0) * outer.radius,ncol = 2)))
        segments(endpoints[1], endpoints[2], endpoints[3], endpoints[4], col = "#66666650")
        endpoints <- c(RMat(axis.rads[i]) %*% matrix(c(1.1, 0, -1.1, 0) * outer.radius, ncol = 2))
        lab1 <- bquote(.(r.labs[i]) * degree)
        lab2 <- bquote(.(l.labs[i]) * degree)
        text(endpoints[1], endpoints[2], lab1, xpd = TRUE)
        text(endpoints[3], endpoints[4], lab2, xpd = TRUE)
    }

    axis(2, pos = -1.25 * outer.radius, at = sort(union(circle.rads,-circle.rads)), labels = NA)
    text( -1.26 * outer.radius, sort(union(circle.rads, -circle.rads)),sort(union(circle.rads, -circle.rads)), xpd = TRUE, pos = 2)
}

# add legend if desired
# this could be sloppy if there are lots of breaks, and that's why it's optional.
# another option would be to use fields:::image.plot(), using only the legend. 
# There's an example for how to do so in its documentation
    if (legend){
        library(fields)
        image.plot(legend.only=TRUE, smallplot=c(.78,.82,.1,.8), col=col, zlim=zlim)
    # ylevs <- seq(-outer.radius, outer.radius, length = contour_levels+ 1)
    # #ylevs <- seq(-outer.radius, outer.radius, length = length(contour_breaks))
            # rect(1.2 * outer.radius, ylevs[1:(length(ylevs) - 1)], 1.3 * outer.radius, ylevs[2:length(ylevs)], col = col, border = NA, xpd = TRUE)
    # rect(1.2 * outer.radius, min(ylevs), 1.3 * outer.radius, max(ylevs), border = "#66666650", xpd = TRUE)
    # text(1.3 * outer.radius, ylevs[seq(1,length(ylevs),length.out=length(contour_breaks))],round(contour_breaks, 1), pos = 4, xpd = TRUE)
    }
}

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