choropleth

Description

Draws a choropleth map given a spatialPolygons object, a variable and a shading scheme.

Usage

choropleth(sp, v, shading = auto.shading(v), ...)

Arguments

Details

The function returns no value, but draws a choropleth map on the current graphics device as a side effect.

Value

None (see above).

Author(s)

Chris Brunsdon

See Also

choro.legend, auto.shading, shading.

Examples

# Read in map data and compute a rate for mapping
sids <- readShapePoly(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1], 
	proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=clrk66"))
sids.rate=10000*sids$SID74/sids$BIR74
# Create the shading scheme,  plot a choropleth map 
shades = auto.shading(sids.rate,cols=brewer.pal(5,'Blues'))
choropleth(sids,sids.rate,shades)

Results

R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
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> library(GISTools)
Loading required package: maptools
Loading required package: sp
Checking rgeos availability: TRUE
Loading required package: RColorBrewer
Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: rgeos
rgeos version: 0.3-19, (SVN revision 524)
 GEOS runtime version: 3.5.0-CAPI-1.9.0 r4084 
 Linking to sp version: 1.2-3 
 Polygon checking: TRUE 

> png(filename="/home/ddbj/snapshot/RGM3/R_CC/result/GISTools/choropleth.Rd_%03d_medium.png", width=480, height=480)
> ### Name: choropleth
> ### Title: choropleth
> ### Aliases: choropleth
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> # Read in map data and compute a rate for mapping
> sids <- readShapePoly(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1], 
+ 	proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=clrk66"))
> sids.rate=10000*sids$SID74/sids$BIR74
> # Create the shading scheme,  plot a choropleth map 
> shades = auto.shading(sids.rate,cols=brewer.pal(5,'Blues'))
> choropleth(sids,sids.rate,shades)
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> dev.off()
null device 
          1 
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