makeGROWmapData: makeMEOWmapData
In sarahsupp/growR: Geographic Regions of the World in R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

makeGROWmapData takes a dataset with values and a GROW column merges them for use by makeGROWmap. Code is modified and extended from @jebyrnes package meowR https://github.com/jebyrnes/meowR.

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makeGROWmapData(newdata, fillColName, fillAlphaColName = NULL,
  regionColName = type, type = "ECOREGION", realm = "Marine",
  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.
`realm`	What geographic realm are the data from (Marine, Freshwater, Terrestrial, Hotspot, IPBES)?
`excludeNoDataAreas`	Exclude areas/regions from the plot with no data?

makeGROWmapData takes a dataset with values and a GROW column and makes a joined data.frame

Returns data.frame object

Sarah Supp

data(regions.df)

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

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