From dd505fedccf89204c6a99021d4a7006fb4821c43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Pech <sebastian.pech@zt-pech.at>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 16:43:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for polar axis

---
 src/backends/pgfplots.jl | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplots.jl b/src/backends/pgfplots.jl
index 6d8be4ba..c9bd9fba 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplots.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplots.jl
@@ -307,7 +307,11 @@ function _update_plot_object(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsBackend})
             kw[:legendPos] = _pgfplots_legend_pos[legpos]
         end
 
-        o = PGFPlots.Axis(; style = style, kw...)
+        axisf = PGFPlots.Axis
+        if sp[:projection] == :polar
+            axisf = PGFPlots.PolarAxis
+        end
+        o = axisf(; style = style, kw...)
 
         # add the series object to the PGFPlots.Axis
         for series in series_list(sp)