dotsInPolys: Put dots in polygons

Description

Make a list of point coordinate matrices for a dot density map

Usage

dotsInPolys(pl, x, f = csr)

Arguments

list of polygons of class polylist

integer vector of counts of same length as pl for dots

function to place points in polygons, either csr - completely spatially random or gridpts gridded points from the splancs package

Value

The function returns a list of matrices of point coordinates, one matrix for each member of pl. If x[i] is zero, the list element is NULL, and can be tested when plotting - see the examples.

Details

With f=csr (completely spatially random), the dots are placed in the polygon at random, f=gridpts - in a grid pattern (number of dots not guaranteed to be the same as the count). When the polygon is made up of more than one part, the dots will be placed in proportion to the relative areas of the clockwise rings (anticlockwise are taken as holes). No correction is made for holes in the placing of the dots.

Examples

Run this code

x <- read.shape(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1])
ncpolys <- Map2poly(x, raw=FALSE)
try1 <- dotsInPolys(ncpolys, as.integer(x$att.data$SID74))
plot(ncpolys)
xx <- lapply(try1, function(x) {if (!is.null(x)) points(x, pch=18, col="red")})
try2 <- dotsInPolys(ncpolys, as.integer(x$att.data$SID74), f=gridpts)
plot(ncpolys)
xx <- lapply(try2, function(x) {if (!is.null(x)) points(x, pch=18, col="red")})