R/USSouthPolygon.R

In colorspace: A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes

#' Polygon for County Map of US South States: Alabama, Georgia, and South
#' Carolina
#' 
#' County polygons for Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina plus an artifical
#' variable used for coloring.
#' 
#' 
#' @usage data("USSouthPolygon")
#' @format A data frame with coordinates of the vertices of the county polygons
#' (\code{x}, \code{y}) and an artificial variable \code{z} constructed for
#' illustrating colored maps.
#' @source Polygon data taken from \pkg{maps} package of Becker, Wilks,
#' Brownrigg, and Minka (2012). Version 2.2-6.
#' \url{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=maps}
#' @keywords datasets
#' @examples
#' ## generate color palette
#' pal <- diverging_hcl(9)
#' n <- length(pal)
#' 
#' ## draw shaded polygons
#' plot(0, 0, type = "n", xlab = "", ylab = "", xaxt = "n", yaxt = "n", bty = "n",
#'   xlim = c(-88.5, -78.6), ylim = c(30.2, 35.2), asp = 1)
#' polygon(USSouthPolygon, col = pal[cut(na.omit(USSouthPolygon$z), breaks = 0:n/n)])
"USSouthPolygon"