README.md

In Maritimes/bio.plotting: Simple tools for creating maps and quickly plotting data

bio.plotting

Oct 17, 2016 - Mike McMahon ([e-mail])

Please refer to the wiki for more extensive documentation.

This package facilitates the creation of simple basemaps, with the option of adding the contents of a dataframe as point data. It is intentionally simple, but flexible.

• No data needs to exist on your computer to generate a map.
• The map can focused at any extent in Canada, and includes the US, Greenland and France (for Saint Pierre and Miquelon).
• The map can be produced in almost any coordinate reference system (CRS) (many of which can be found here).
• Any dataframe with coordinates can be added to a map as points. Point data is always assumed to be in WGS84.
• Points can be styled to reflect the values they represent via use.buckets = TRUE (i.e. bigger, darker symbols reflect larger values)

Installing this package

In R, you first need to install the devtools package, then you can install this package directly from github. In practice, this looks like:

> require(devtools)
> install_github('Beothuk/bio.plotting')
Downloading GitHub repo Beothuk/bio.plotting@master
from URL https://api.github.com/repos/Beothuk/bio.plotting/zipball/master
Installing bio.plotting
....
Reloading installed bio.plotting
> 

That's it! Don't forget to require(bio.plotting) to use it. Test it by running make_basemap().

Maritimes/bio.plotting documentation built on May 28, 2019, 8:22 a.m.