README.md

In fernandomayer/FishMaps: Plots Fishery Data into Maps

FishMaps 0.3.3

Plots Fishery Data into Maps

Introduction

FishMaps was designed to plot georeferenced fishery data (e.g. catch, effort and CPUE) into maps. This package uses the lattice levelplot to draw a level_plot _map based on latitude and longitude, with a resolution defined by the size of lat/long squares (e.g. 1x1 or 5x5 degrees). Coastlines are drawn to display the map, based on two databases: world (lower resolution) and worldHires (higher resolution), extracted from the databases of the names in maps and mapdata packages. However, none of these packages are required since the databases are incorporated inside FishMaps.

Producing this kind of maps in R can be really straightforward, but the difference is that FishMaps can automate this task, producing lots of maps (e.g. from a long time series) with one command and using the power and the cleverness of lattice graphics.

Although FishMaps was designed for fishery data, any kind of georeferenced data can be used.

Download and install

Linux/Mac

Use the devtools package (available from CRAN) to install automatically from the official Git repository:

library(devtools)
install_git("http://git.leg.ufpr.br/fernandomayer/FishMaps.git")

or, you can also install from the (mirrored) GitHub repository with:

install_github("fernandomayer/FishMaps")

Alternatively, download the package tarball: FishMaps_0.3.3.tar.gz and run from a UNIX terminal (make sure you are on the container file directory):

R CMD INSTALL -l /path/to/your/R/library FishMaps_0.3.3.tar.gz

Or, inside an R session:

install.packages("FishMaps_0.3.3.tar.gz", repos = NULL,
                 lib.loc = "/path/to/your/R/library",
                 dependencies = TRUE)

Note that -l /path/to/your/R/library in the former and lib.loc = "/path/to/your/R/library" in the latter are optional. Only use it if you want to install in a personal library, other than the standard R library.

Windows

Download Windows binary version: FishMaps_0.3.3.zip (do not unzip it under Windows), put the file in your working directory, and from inside R:

install.packages("FishMaps_0.3.3.zip", repos = NULL,
                 dependencies = TRUE)

Authors

• Fernando Mayer (LEG/UFPR)
• Rodrigo Sant'Ana (CTTMar/UNIVALI)

Documentation

The reference manual in PDF can be found here: FishMaps-manual.pdf

License

This package is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v. 3.0

fernandomayer/FishMaps documentation built on May 16, 2019, 12:48 p.m.