map: Plotting a map data

In mgraph: Graphing map attributes and non-map variables in R

Description

The map function plots an attribute of a map. It can plot lines, polygons and points.

Usage

map(source,layer='',attribute,type='',label="",col='',symbol='')
## Default S3 method:
map(source,layer='',attribute,type='',label="",col='',symbol='')
## S3 method for class 'map'
print(x,...)
## S3 method for class 'map'
summary(object,...)
## S3 method for class 'map'
plot(x,...)

Arguments

source	Folder path of the layer or map. Please quote the full folder path with forward slash "/". You can use R object as a source but you must set the layer parameter to "nofile"; see below
layer	The layer map in the folder that you want to work with. It is the file name of map. This is case sensitive, please. In case you want to use non spatial data such as ".csv", ".txt", "dat" or ".tab" insert the full file name as layer. In case of using R object as a source set "layer" parameter to "nofile"
type	The type of ogram chart you want to plot. Set the "type" to "points" if you want a map to be drawn for the point attribute
attribute	The attribute name of the layer or the map you want use. In case of using non spatial data such as ".csv", ".txt", "dat" or ".tab" attributes are variables or column names
label	The labeling title of the chart. The title or topic of the graph
col	The colour of the chart
symbol	Incase of plotting a point data, you can set it to any symbol from your key board. For example you may use "H" to represent hospitals or set it to "P" to represent plants
x	an object of class "map", i.e., a fitted model.
object	an object of class "map", i.e., a fitted model.
...	any other R parameters can be added

Value

Objects of the class that basically list its elements

data	Original data for the model
table	Frequency of the original data
source	Folder path of the layer or map
layer	The layer map in the source folder
attribute	The attribute name of the layer or the map that was used.
label	The labeling title of the chart.

Author(s)

George Owusu

References

Bivand, R. S., Pebesma, E. J., Gomez-Rubio, V. (2008) Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Springer Kabacoff, I. R. (2011) R in Action. Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications Co

Examples

## Not run: 
source<- system.file("external", package = "mgraph")
layer="farms"
graph=map(source,layer=layer,attribute='PlantPop',type="points",label="Plant population",col="green")
summary(graph)
print(graph)
plot(graph)


## End(Not run)

mgraph documentation built on May 29, 2017, 7:52 p.m.