oce (version 0.9-18)

mapPoints: Plot points on a existing map

Description

Plot points on an existing map

Usage

mapPoints(longitude, latitude, debug=getOption("oceDebug"), ...)

Arguments

longitude

longitudes of points to be plotted, or an object from which longitude and latitude can be inferred in which case the following two arguments are ignored. This objects that are possible include those of type coastline.

latitude

latitudes of points to be plotted

debug

a flag that turns on debugging. Set to 1 to get a moderate amount of debugging information, or to 2 to get more.

...

optional arguments passed to points.

Details

Adds points to an existing map, by analogy to points.

See Also

See mapPlot for general information on plotting maps, including other functions.

Examples

library(oce)
data(coastlineWorld)
mapPlot(coastlineWorld, type='l', grid=TRUE,
        longitudelim=c(-80,0), latitudelim=c(20,50),
        projection="+proj=merc", orientation=c(90,0,0))
data(section)
mapPoints(section)