makeMEOWmapData: makeMEOWmapData
In jebyrnes/meowR: Marine Ecoregions of the World in R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

makeMEOWmapData takes a dataset with values and a MEOW column merges them for use by makeMEOWmap

1 2	makeMEOWmapData(newdata, fillColName, fillAlphaColName = NULL, regionColName = type, type = "ECOREGION", excludeNoDataAreas = T)

`newdata`	dataset to be used
`fillColName`	name of the column with information to be used for a fill value
`fillAlphaColName`	Colname of column used to scale alpha level of fill
`regionColName`	data name of column with ecoregion, province, or realm names
`type`	are these values from an ECOREGION, PROVINCE, or REALM map. Defaults to "ECOREGION". Note all caps.
`excludeNoDataAreas`	Exclude areas/regions from the plot with no data?

makeMEOWmapData takes a dataset with values and a MEOW column and makes a joined data.frame

Returns data.frame object

Jarrett Byrnes.

data(regions.df)

ndf <- data.frame(Ecoregions = levels(regions.df$ECOREGION), 
Values = runif(length(levels(regions.df$ECOREGION)), 0,100))

head(makeMEOWmapData(ndf, fillColName="Values", regionColName="Ecoregions"))