mgraph (version 1.03)

map: Plotting a map data

Description

The map function plots an attribute of a map. It can plot lines, polygons and points.

Usage

map(source,layer='',attribute,type='',label="",col='',symbol='')
"map"(source,layer='',attribute,type='',label="",col='',symbol='')
"print"(x,...)
"summary"(object,...)
"plot"(x,...)

Arguments

source

Folder path of the layer or map. Please quote the full folder path with forward slash "/". You can use R object as a source but you must set the layer parameter to "nofile"; see below

layer

The layer map in the folder that you want to work with. It is the file name of map. This is case sensitive, please. In case you want to use non spatial data such as ".csv", ".txt", "dat" or ".tab" insert the full file name as layer. In case of using R object as a source set "layer" parameter to "nofile"

type

The type of ogram chart you want to plot. Set the "type" to "points" if you want a map to be drawn for the point attribute

attribute

The attribute name of the layer or the map you want use. In case of using non spatial data such as ".csv", ".txt", "dat" or ".tab" attributes are variables or column names

label

The labeling title of the chart. The title or topic of the graph

col

The colour of the chart

symbol

Incase of plotting a point data, you can set it to any symbol from your key board. For example you may use "H" to represent hospitals or set it to "P" to represent plants

x

an object of class "map", i.e., a fitted model.

object

an object of class "map", i.e., a fitted model.

...

any other R parameters can be added

Value

Objects of the class that basically list its elements

data

Original data for the model

table

Frequency of the original data

source

Folder path of the layer or map

layer

The layer map in the source folder

attribute

The attribute name of the layer or the map that was used.

label

The labeling title of the chart.

References

Bivand, R. S., Pebesma, E. J., Gomez-Rubio, V. (2008) Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Springer Kabacoff, I. R. (2011) R in Action. Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications Co

Examples

## Not run: 
# source<- system.file("external", package = "mgraph")
# layer="farms"
# graph=map(source,layer=layer,attribute='PlantPop',type="points",label="Plant population",col="green")
# summary(graph)
# print(graph)
# plot(graph)
# 
# ## End(Not run)