glottospotlight: Highlight certain data points in visualizations

In glottospace: Language Mapping and Geospatial Analysis of Linguistic and Cultural Data

Highlight certain data points in visualizations

Description

This function creates two separate color scales: one for points to highlight, and a second for the remaining background points. It also creates a legend. This is useful for preparing the data for visualizations such as maps or other plots.

Usage

glottospotlight(
  glottodata,
  spotcol,
  spotlight,
  spotcontrast = NULL,
  spotpal = NULL,
  bgcontrast = NULL,
  bgpal = NULL
)

Arguments

glottodata	User-provided glottodata
spotcol	Name of the column that contains the data to put in the spotlights (as well as remaining background data).
spotlight	Selection of data to put in the spotlights.
spotcontrast	Optional column to contrast between data points in the spotlight.
spotpal	color palette for spotligbht points
bgcontrast	Optional column to contrast between background data points
bgpal	color palette for background points (default is grays)

Value

A glottodata object with columns added to be used in visualization.

Examples

glottodata <- glottofilter(country = c("Netherlands", "Germany", "Belgium") )
glottodata <- glottospotlight(glottodata = glottodata, spotcol = "country",
spotlight = "Netherlands", spotcontrast = "name")
glottomap(glottodata, color = "color")

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