maptools (version 0.7-14)

symbolsInPolys: Place grids of points over polygons

Description

Place grids of points over polygons with chosen density and/or symbols (suggested by Michael Wolf).

Usage

symbolsInPolys(pl, dens, symb = "+", compatible = FALSE)

Arguments

pl
list of polygons of class polylist
dens
number of symbol plotting points per unit area; either a single numerical value for all polygons, or a numeric vector the same length as pl with values for each polygon
symb
plotting symbol; either a single value for all polygons, or a vector the same length as pl with values for each polygon
compatible
what to return, if TRUE a a list of matrices of point coordinates, one matrix for each member of pl, with a symb attribute, if false a SpatialPointsDataFrame with a symb column

Value

  • The function returns a list of matrices of point coordinates, one matrix for each member of pl; each matrix has a symb attribute that can be used for setting the pch argument for plotting. If the count of points for the given density and polygon area is zero, the list element is NULL, and can be tested when plotting - see the examples.

Details

The dots are placed in a grid pattern with the number of points per polygon being polygon area times density (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). From maptools release 0.5-2, correction is made for holes in the placing of the dots, but depends on hole values being correctly set, which they often are not. The wrapper package spgpc may be used to check holes, see the dontrun section of the example.

See Also

spsample

Examples

Run this code
x <- read.shape(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1])
ncpolys <- Map2poly(x)
np <- sapply(ncpolys, function(x) attr(x, "nPart"))
symbs <- c("-", "+", "x")
try1 <- symbolsInPolys(ncpolys, 100, symb=symbs[np], compatible=TRUE)
plot(ncpolys)
xx <- lapply(try1, function(x) {if (!is.null(x)) points(x, pch=attr(x, "symb"))})
nc_SP <- readShapePoly(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1],
 proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=clrk66"))
library(spgpc)
pls <- slot(nc_SP, "polygons")
pls_new <- lapply(pls, checkPolygonsHoles)
nc_SP <- SpatialPolygonsDataFrame(SpatialPolygons(pls_new,
 proj4string=CRS(proj4string(nc_SP))), data=as(nc_SP, "data.frame"))
symbs <- c("-", "+", "x")
np <- sapply(slot(nc_SP, "polygons"), function(x) length(slot(x, "Polygons")))
try1 <- symbolsInPolys(nc_SP, 100, symb=symbs[np])
plot(nc_SP, axes=TRUE)
plot(try1, add=TRUE, pch=as.character(try1$symb))

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