draw.rect: Draw ICES rectangles in an existing plot

In mapplots: Data Visualisation on Maps

Draw ICES rectangles in an existing plot

Description

Draw ICES rectangles in an existing map and add axis labels to the top and right axes. ICES statistical rectangles (https://www.ices.dk) are rectangles of 1 degree longitude x 0.5 degrees latitude. They are used for reporting of fishing effort and landings.

Usage

draw.rect(col = "grey", lty = 2, ...)

Arguments

col	colour of the lines, defaults to "grey".
lty	line type, defaults to 2.
...	any other arguments to be passed to abline.

Author(s)

Hans Gerritsen

References

https://www.ices.dk

See Also

basemap

Examples

xlim <- c(-15,0)
ylim <- c(50,56)
basemap(xlim, ylim)
draw.rect()

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