tm_polygons: Draw polygons

In tmap: Thematic Maps

Draw polygons

Description

Creates a tmap-element that draws the polygons. tm_fill fills the polygons. Either a fixed color is used, or a color palette is mapped to a data variable. tm_borders draws the borders of the polygons. tm_polygons fills the polygons and draws the polygon borders.

Usage

tm_fill(
  col = NA,
  alpha = NA,
  palette = NULL,
  convert2density = FALSE,
  area = NULL,
  n = 5,
  style = ifelse(is.null(breaks), "pretty", "fixed"),
  style.args = list(),
  as.count = NA,
  breaks = NULL,
  interval.closure = "left",
  labels = NULL,
  drop.levels = FALSE,
  midpoint = NULL,
  stretch.palette = TRUE,
  contrast = NA,
  colorNA = NA,
  textNA = "Missing",
  showNA = NA,
  colorNULL = NA,
  thres.poly = 0,
  title = NA,
  legend.show = TRUE,
  legend.format = list(),
  legend.is.portrait = TRUE,
  legend.reverse = FALSE,
  legend.hist = FALSE,
  legend.hist.title = NA,
  legend.z = NA,
  legend.hist.z = NA,
  id = NA,
  interactive = TRUE,
  popup.vars = NA,
  popup.format = list(),
  zindex = NA,
  group = NA,
  auto.palette.mapping = NULL,
  max.categories = NULL,
  ...
)

tm_borders(
  col = NA,
  lwd = 1,
  lty = "solid",
  alpha = NA,
  zindex = NA,
  group = NA
)

tm_polygons(
  col = NA,
  alpha = NA,
  border.col = NA,
  border.alpha = NA,
  zindex = NA,
  group = NA,
  ...
)

Arguments

col	For tm_fill, it is one of a single color value the name of a data variable that is contained in shp. Either the data variable contains color values, or values (numeric or categorical) that will be depicted by a color palette (see palette. In the latter case, a choropleth is drawn. "MAP_COLORS". In this case polygons will be colored such that adjacent polygons do not get the same color. See the underlying function map_coloring for details. For tm_borders, it is a single color value that specifies the border line color. If multiple values are specified, small multiples are drawn (see details).
alpha	transparency number between 0 (totally transparent) and 1 (not transparent). By default, the alpha value of the col is used (normally 1).
palette	a palette name or a vector of colors. See tmaptools::palette_explorer() for the named palettes. Use a "-" as prefix to reverse the palette. The default palette is taken from tm_layout's argument aes.palette, which typically depends on the style. The type of palette from aes.palette is automatically determined, but can be overwritten: use "seq" for sequential, "div" for diverging, and "cat" for categorical.
convert2density	boolean that determines whether col is converted to a density variable. Should be TRUE when col consists of absolute numbers. The area size is either approximated from the shape object, or given by the argument area.
area	Name of the data variable that contains the area sizes in squared kilometer.
n	preferred number of classes (in case col is a numeric variable).
style	method to process the color scale when col is a numeric variable. Discrete gradient options are "cat", "fixed", "sd", "equal", "pretty", "quantile", "kmeans", "hclust", "bclust", "fisher", "jenks", "dpih", "headtails", and "log10_pretty". A numeric variable is processed as a categorical variable when using "cat", i.e. each unique value will correspond to a distinct category. For the other discrete gradient options (except "log10_pretty"), see the details in classIntervals (extra arguments can be passed on via style.args). Continuous gradient options are "cont", "order", and "log10". The first maps the values of col to a smooth gradient, the second maps the order of values of col to a smooth gradient, and the third uses a logarithmic transformation. The numeric variable can be either regarded as a continuous variable or a count (integer) variable. See as.count.
style.args	arguments passed on to classIntervals, the function that determine color classes (see also style).
as.count	when col is a numeric variable, should it be processed as a count variable? For instance, if style = "pretty", n = 2, and the value range of the variable is 0 to 10, then the column classes for as.count = TRUE are 0; 1 to 5; 6 to 10 (note that 0 is regarded as an own category) whereas for as.count = FALSE they are 0 to 5; 5 to 10. Only applicable if style is "pretty", "fixed", or "log10_pretty". By default, TRUE if style is one of these, and the variable is an integer.
breaks	in case style=="fixed", breaks should be specified. The breaks argument can also be used when style="cont". In that case, the breaks are mapped evenly to the sequential or diverging color palette.
interval.closure	value that determines whether where the intervals are closed: "left" or "right". Only applicable if col is a numeric variable. If as.count = TRUE, inverval.closure is always set to "left".
labels	labels of the classes.
drop.levels	should unused classes be omitted? FALSE by default.
midpoint	The value mapped to the middle color of a diverging palette. By default it is set to 0 if negative and positive values are present. In that case, the two sides of the color palette are assigned to negative respectively positive values. If all values are positive or all values are negative, then the midpoint is set to NA, which means that the value that corresponds to the middle color class (see style) is mapped to the middle color. Only applies when col is a numeric variable. If it is specified for sequential color palettes (e.g. "Blues"), then this color palette will be treated as a diverging color palette.
stretch.palette	Logical that determines whether the categorical color palette should be stretched if there are more categories than colors. If TRUE (default), interpolated colors are used (like a rainbow). If FALSE, the palette is repeated.
contrast	vector of two numbers that determine the range that is used for sequential and diverging palettes (applicable when auto.palette.mapping=TRUE). Both numbers should be between 0 and 1. The first number determines where the palette begins, and the second number where it ends. For sequential palettes, 0 means the brightest color, and 1 the darkest color. For diverging palettes, 0 means the middle color, and 1 both extremes. If only one number is provided, this number is interpreted as the endpoint (with 0 taken as the start).
colorNA	color used for missing values. Use NULL for transparency.
textNA	text used for missing values.
showNA	logical that determines whether missing values are named in the legend. By default (NA), this depends on the presence of missing values.
colorNULL	colour for polygons that are shown on the map that are out of scope
thres.poly	number that specifies the threshold at which polygons are taken into account. The number itself corresponds to the proportion of the area sizes of the polygons to the total polygon size. By default, all polygons are drawn. To ignore polygons that are not visible in a normal plot, a value like 1e-05 is recommended.
title	title of the legend element
legend.show	logical that determines whether the legend is shown
legend.format	list of formatting options for the legend numbers. Only applicable if labels is undefined. Parameters are: fun Function to specify the labels. It should take a numeric vector, and should return a character vector of the same size. By default it is not specified. If specified, the list items scientific, format, and digits (see below) are not used. scientific Should the labels be formatted scientifically? If so, square brackets are used, and the format of the numbers is "g". Otherwise, format="f", and text.separator, text.less.than, and text.or.more are used. Also, the numbers are automatically rounded to millions or billions if applicable. format By default, "f", i.e. the standard notation xxx.xxx, is used. If scientific=TRUE then "g", which means that numbers are formatted scientifically, i.e. n.dddE+nn if needed to save space. digits Number of digits after the decimal point if format="f", and the number of significant digits otherwise. big.num.abbr Vector that defines whether and which abbrevations are used for large numbers. It is a named numeric vector, where the name indicated the abbreviation, and the number the magnitude (in terms on numbers of zero). Numbers are only abbrevation when they are large enough. Set it to NA to disable abbrevations. The default is c("mln" = 6, "bln" = 9). For layers where style is set to log10 or log10_pretty, the default is NA. prefix Prefix of each number suffix Suffix of each number text.separator Character string to use to separate numbers in the legend (default: "to"). text.less.than Character value(s) to use to translate "Less than". When a character vector of length 2 is specified, one for each word, these words are aligned when text.to.columns = TRUE text.or.more Character value(s) to use to translate "or more". When a character vector of length 2 is specified, one for each word, these words are aligned when text.to.columns = TRUE text.align Value that determines how the numbers are aligned, "left", "center" or "right". By default "left" for legends in portrait format (legend.is.protrait = TRUE), and "center" otherwise. text.to.columns Logical that determines whether the text is aligned to three columns (from, text.separator, to). By default FALSE. html.escape Logical that determins whther HTML code is escaped in the popups in view mode. By default TRUE. If set to FALSE HTML code can be added, e.g. to added white space via  . ... Other arguments passed on to formatC
legend.is.portrait	logical that determines whether the legend is in portrait mode (TRUE) or landscape (FALSE)
legend.reverse	logical that determines whether the items are shown in reverse order, i.e. from bottom to top when legend.is.portrait = TRUE and from right to left when legend.is.portrait = FALSE
legend.hist	logical that determines whether a histogram is shown
legend.hist.title	title for the histogram. By default, one title is used for both the histogram and the normal legend.
legend.z	index value that determines the position of the legend element with respect to other legend elements. The legend elements are stacked according to their z values. The legend element with the lowest z value is placed on top.
legend.hist.z	index value that determines the position of the histogram legend element
id	name of the data variable that specifies the indices of the polygons. Only used for "view" mode (see tmap_mode).
interactive	logical that determines whether this layer is interactive in view mode (e.g. hover text, popup, and click event in shiny apps)
popup.vars	names of data variables that are shown in the popups in "view" mode. If convert2density=TRUE, the derived density variable name is suffixed with _density. If NA (default), only aesthetic variables (i.e. specified by col and lwd) are shown). If they are not specified, all variables are shown. Set popup.vars to FALSE to disable popups. When a vector of variable names is provided, the names (if specified) are printed in the popups.
popup.format	list of formatting options for the popup values. See the argument legend.format for options. Only applicable for numeric data variables. If one list of formatting options is provided, it is applied to all numeric variables of popup.vars. Also, a (named) list of lists can be provided. In that case, each list of formatting options is applied to the named variable.
zindex	zindex of the pane in view mode. By default, it is set to the layer number plus 400. By default, the tmap layers will therefore be placed in the custom panes "tmap401", "tmap402", etc., except for the base tile layers, which are placed in the standard "tile". This parameter determines both the name of the pane and the z-index, which determines the pane order from bottom to top. For instance, if zindex is set to 500, the pane will be named "tmap500".
group	name of the group to which this layer belongs in view mode. Each group can be selected or deselected in the layer control item. Set group = NULL to hide the layer in the layer control item. By default, it will be set to the name of the shape (specified in tm_shape).
auto.palette.mapping	deprecated. It has been replaced by midpoint for numeric variables and stretch.palette for categorical variables.
max.categories	deprecated. It has moved to tmap_options.
...	for tm_polygons, these arguments passed to either tm_fill or tm_borders. For tm_fill, these arguments are passed on to map_coloring.
lwd	border line width (see par)
lty	border line type (see par)
border.col	border line color
border.alpha	transparency number between 0 (totally transparent) and 1 (not transparent). By default, the alpha value of the col is used (normally 1).

Details

Small multiples can be drawn in two ways: either by specifying the by argument in tm_facets, or by defining multiple variables in the aesthetic arguments. The aesthetic argument of tm_fill (and tm_polygons) is col. In the latter case, the arguments, except for thres.poly, and the ones starting with legend., can be specified for small multiples as follows. If the argument normally only takes a single value, such as n, then a vector of those values can be specified, one for each small multiple. If the argument normally can take a vector, such as palette, then a list of those vectors (or values) can be specified, one for each small multiple.

Value

tmap-element

References

Tennekes, M., 2018, tmap: Thematic Maps in R, Journal of Statistical Software, 84(6), 1-39, \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v084.i06")}

See Also

vignette("tmap-getstarted")

Examples

data(World)

# Constant fill
tm_shape(World) + tm_fill("darkolivegreen3") + tm_format("World", title="A green World")

# Borders only
tm_shape(World) + tm_borders()

# Data variable containing colours values
World$isNLD <- ifelse(World$name=="Netherlands", "darkorange", "darkolivegreen3")
tm_shape(World) +
    tm_fill("isNLD") +
tm_layout("Find the Netherlands!")

tm_shape(World, projection = "+proj=eck4") +
	tm_polygons("economy", title="Economy", id="name") +
	tm_text("iso_a3", size="AREA", scale=1.5) +
	tm_format("World")

# Numeric data variable
tm_shape(World, projection = "+proj=eck4") +
	tm_polygons("HPI", palette="RdYlGn", style="cont", n=8,
		title="Happy Planet Index", id="name") +
	tm_text("iso_a3", size="AREA", scale=1.5) +
tm_style("grey") +
tm_format("World")

## Not run: 
data(NLD_prov, NLD_muni)	
# Map coloring algorithm
tm_shape(NLD_prov) +
    tm_fill("name", legend.show = FALSE) +
tm_shape(NLD_muni) +
    tm_polygons("MAP_COLORS", palette="Greys", alpha = .25) +
tm_shape(NLD_prov) +
    tm_borders(lwd=2) +
    tm_text("name", shadow=TRUE) +
tm_format("NLD", title="Dutch provinces and\nmunicipalities", bg.color="white")

# Cartogram
if (require(cartogram)) {
	NLD_prov_pop <- cartogram(NLD_prov, "population")
	tm_shape(NLD_prov_pop) +
		tm_polygons("origin_non_west", title = "Non-western origin (%)")
}

## End(Not run)

# TIP: check out these examples in view mode, enabled with tmap_mode("view")

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