spam (version 2.1-1)

germany.plot: Plot administrative districts of Germany

Description

Displaying data over the administrative districts of Germany

Usage

germany.plot(vect,  col=NULL, zlim=range(vect), legend=TRUE, 
             main=NULL, cex.axis=1, add=FALSE, ... )

Arguments

vect

vector of length 544

col

color scheme to be used. By default uses colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(9,"Blues"))(100).

zlim

the minimum and maximum values for which colors should be plotted, defaulting to the range of data.

legend

Should the legend be added, see ‘Details’.

main

an overall title for the plot.

cex.axis

label size of legend.

add

logical, if true adds to current plot.

…

additional arguments passed to polygon.

Details

The legend is only added, provided (a) function image.plot is available.

The perfect position of the legend is an art per se and depends on various par parameters. One possiblity for finer control is to not plot it and to manually call the function image.plot of fields.

References

See also http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtlicher_Gemeindeschl%C3%BCssel and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Landkreise_in_Deutschland

See Also

Oral.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data( Oral)
germany.plot( Oral$Y/Oral$E)


# Plot the Bundeslaender:
germany.plot(germany.info$id%/%1000,col=rep(2:8,3), legend=FALSE)
# }