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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} polar (@var{theta}, @var{rho}, @var{fmt})
## Make a two-dimensional plot given polar the coordinates @var{theta} and
## @var{rho}.
##
## The optional third argument specifies the line type.
## @end deftypefn
##
## @seealso{plot, semilogx, semilogy, loglog, mesh, contour, bar,
## stairs, replot, xlabel, ylabel, and title}

## Author: jwe

function polar (x1, x2, fmt)

  ## XXX FIXME XXX -- these plot states should really just be set
  ## temporarily, probably inside an unwind_protect block, but there is
  ## no way to determine their current values.

  __gnuplot_raw__ ("set nologscale;\n");
  __gnuplot_raw__ ("set nopolar;\n");

  if (nargin == 3)
    if (! ischar (fmt))
      error ("polar: third argument must be a string");
    endif
    __plr2__ (x1, x2, fmt);
  elseif (nargin == 2)
    if (ischar (x2))
      __plr1__ (x1, x2);
    else
      fmt = "";
      __plr2__ (x1, x2, fmt);
    endif
  elseif (nargin == 1)
    fmt = "";
    __plr1__ (x1, fmt);
  else
    usage ("polar (theta, rho, fmt)");
  endif

endfunction