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PieOrientation

PieOrientation
is an option for PieChart that determines the placement of the first piece of data.

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To use PieOrientation, you first need to load the Pie Charts Package using Needs["PieCharts`"].

PieOrientation-> starts the pie chart along the angle . =0 corresponds to the positive x axis, and increases in a counterclockwise direction.

PieOrientation->dir fills the pie chart in the specified direction. dir can be either "Clockwise" or "CounterClockwise".

PieOrientation->{, dir} starts along the angle and proceeds in the direction dir.

PieOrientation->Automatic is the same as PieOrientation->{0, "CounterClockwise"}.

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Needs["PieCharts`"]

The first pie wedge normally starts along the positive x axis and proceeds in a counterclockwise direction:

Start along the positive y axis:

Proceed in a clockwise direction:

Start along the positive y axis, and proceed in a clockwise direction:

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