identifyCountries: a function that will print country name and attribute values...

In rworldmap: Mapping global data, vector and raster.

Description

An interactive function that will print on a map the nearest country name to a user mouse click. The user can specify nothing and the function will use a map from the package. Alternatively the user can specifiy a data frame or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame in which case they need to define the column containing the country names (nameCountryColumn) and optionally a 2nd attribute column to print (nameColumnToPlot).

Usage

identifyCountries(dF = ""
                 , nameCountryColumn = "NAME"
                 , nameX = "LON"
                 , nameY = "LAT"
                 , nameColumnToPlot = ""
                 , plotSelected = FALSE
                 , ...)

Arguments

dF	data frame or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
nameCountryColumn	name of column containing country names to be printed on the map (could also be set to any other attribute the user wants to query)
nameX	name of column containing the X variable (longitude), not needed if dF is a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
nameY	name of column containing the Y variable (lattitude), not needed if dF is a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
nameColumnToPlot	name of an attribute column in the data frame the value of which will be appended to the country name when it is printed
plotSelected	if set to TRUE a blue outline will be printed around the countries selected when the selection process is finished
...	other parameters that can be passed to identify()

Details

Uses the identify() function, which waits for the user to click on the map, and stops when the user right clicks and selects 'stop'.

It uses country centroids, and will give a warning if one is too far away (default value of 0.25 inches).

Value

a vector of the indices of the countries selected

Author(s)

andy south

See Also

identify() labelCountries

Examples

#mapCountryData()
#identifyCountries()

#identifyCountries(nameColumnToPlot = "POP_EST", plotSelected = TRUE)

Example output

Loading required package: sp
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