map.new: Start a new map

In mapmiscTerra: Utilities for Producing Maps

Start a new map

Description

Prepare a plotting window suitable for a map

Usage

map.new(x,legendRight=FALSE, buffer=0, mar=c(0,0,0,0), ...)

Arguments

x	A spatial object from which an extent can be extracted.
legendRight	Leave room to the right for the legend produced by plotting a Raster object
buffer	passed to extend to increase the plotting area
mar	see par
...	Additional arguments passed to plot

Details

map.new initiates a plot intended to contain a map covering the extent of x, with no margins.

Author(s)

Patrick Brown

Examples

Npoints = 20
myPoints = vect(
	cbind(runif(Npoints), 51+runif(Npoints)), 
	atts=data.frame(
		y1=c(NA, rnorm(Npoints-1)), 
	    y2=c(sample(0:5, Npoints-1,replace=TRUE), NA)
	),
	crs=crsLL)


points(myPoints)

mapmiscTerra documentation built on July 9, 2023, 3:07 p.m.