add_entities: Add entities.

Description

Add entities to the interactive map.

Usage

add_entities(map, entities, attributes = NULL, name = NULL,
  label = NULL, color = NULL, text = NULL,
  info = NULL, infoFrame = c("right","left"),
  start = NULL, end = NULL, period = NULL, opacity = 0.2)

Value

Object of class evolMap.

Arguments

map: an object of class evolMap.
entities: a spatial object of geometries.
attributes: a data frame with information to show for each geometry. Its columns names can be passed as parameters to the arguments.
name: name of the column with names in the entities or attributes data frame.
label: name of the column with labels in the entities or attributes data frame.
color: name of the column with color variable in the entities or attributes data frame.
text: name of the column in the entities or attributes data frame with texts in the entities or attributes data frame. This information will be shown as a popup.
info: name of the column with information to display in a panel in the data matrix.
infoFrame: Panel (right or left) where the information is to be displayed. The left panel is only available if a description is provided with add_description.
start: name of the column with the start time of a period in the entities or attributes data frame.
end: name of the column with the end time of a period in the entities or attributes data frame.
period: name of the column with the period name in the entities or attributes data frame.
opacity: Entity opacity expressed as a numeric vector between 0 and 1. Default: 0.2.

Author

Modesto Escobar modesto@usal.es, Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca, Carlos Prieto cprietos@usal.es, and David Barrios metal@usal.es, Bioinformatics Service, University of Salamanca.

Examples

Run this code

data(World)
map <- create_map()
map <- add_entities(map, World, color="pop")
# \donttest{
# plot map
plot(map)
# }

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