Polarscatter crashes at larger vector size

I have issues with Polarscatter crashing, so I really can't use it.

I have R2020a Update 3 (9.8.0.1396136). I think this is the latest available currently.

I have not tried to go back to a lower version.

"polarplot" and "polar" seemed to work well regardless of size. Polar isn't recommended anymore by Mathwork. Polarplot's graphing functionality is very limited. So I would like "polarscatter" to work.

I tried these very simple codes and I can recreate every time;

%crash test

rowsize=4500;

rho = 0:1:rowsize;

theta = 0:(2*pi()/rowsize):2*pi();

polarplot(theta,rho) %works regardless of row vector size

polar(theta,rho) %works regardless of row vector size

%ps=polarscatter(theta,rho); %this works up to 1500. At 2000, it crashes.

ps.Marker = 's';

ps.MarkerFaceColor = 'red';

polarscatter(theta,rho,'g.') %this works better, but crashes at larger than 5000.

%polarscatter(theta,rho) %when the marker is not specified, it crashes at around 1500 vector size or larger. OK at 1000.

Answer 1

[Rohan Patel]

Hi Jayman,

The Mathworks team has been updated with this issue. We will try to fix it in the future releases.

[Jayman]

Thanks. The 2020b pre-lease version works fine. I am glad.