Reversing y axis in polaraxis plot

Question

I'm trying to reverse the y axis of my polaraxis plot while keeping the zero towards east. This is supposed to produce a clockwise polar plot.

However, the tick anchors are not mirrored in the correct way.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{pgfplots.polar} 

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
 \begin{tikzpicture} 
\begin{polaraxis}[
    y dir=reverse
]
\addplot table{
    0 1 
    30 2
    60 4
    90 6
    120 4
    };
\end{polaraxis} 
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

How can I get that fixed? A similar problem is given in Reverse xaxis on polar plot

Answer 1

With xticklabel style={anchor=180-\tick} you can fix anchor of xticklabel on this reversed y axis, to drive away tick labels from the center you can add inner xsep=2mm.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{pgfplots.polar} 

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
 \begin{tikzpicture} 
\begin{polaraxis}[
    y dir=reverse,
    xticklabel style={anchor=180-\tick}]
\addplot table{
    0 1 
    30 2
    60 4
    90 6
    120 4
    };
\end{polaraxis} 
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}

\end{document}