How to plot circular chromosomes with Gviz?

Question

I am using Gviz to plot several tracks. I create a GenomeAxisTrack() and then several AnnotationTrack()s that I feed to plotTracks(). This produces a stacked output of tracks with annotated arrows as I want but the displays are linear. In some cases I have the complete genomes and I know they are circular (like some bacterial and viral chromosomes), how can I display the plots as circular?

I tried feeding to AnnotationTrack(); a GRanges() object with a Seqinfo() object specifying the isCircular=TRUE flag, but this didn't change the resulting plot.

Here is minimal code to create a linear plot, I would like one where the first and last arrow join up in a circle:

library(Gviz)
library(stringr)

track <- AnnotationTrack(start=c(1,5,7), end=c(2,6,10), strand=c('+','+','-'), stacking="dense", fill=c('red','blue', 'black'))
png(file=paste("test","png", sep="."))
plotTracks(track)
dev.off()

Note, I am not interested in alternative software recommendations, I would like to solve this with gviz if it is possible. Also asked this here.

Answer 1

The primary author of Gviz confirmed to me via email that this is not possible:

Gviz will only give you the traditional linear tracks. There are a bunch of solutions available for visualizing circular genomes, most of which are more interactive in nature and not implemented in the rather static R graphics context. GGplot2 has some support for circular axes, too. If you want to stay within the R environment I’d start there. Ggbio is another option providing a somewhat higher-level interface.