cartography (version 2.4.2)

layoutLayer: Layout Layer

Description

Plot a layout layer.

Usage

layoutLayer(
  title = "Title of the map, year",
  sources = "",
  author = "",
  horiz = TRUE,
  col = "black",
  coltitle = "white",
  theme = NULL,
  bg = NULL,
  scale = "auto",
  posscale = "bottomright",
  frame = TRUE,
  north = FALSE,
  south = FALSE,
  extent = NULL,
  tabtitle = FALSE,
  postitle = "left"
)

Arguments

title

title of the map.

sources

sources of the map (or something else).

author

author of the map (or something else).

horiz

orientation of sources and author. TRUE for horizontal display on the bottom left corner, FALSE for vertical display on the bottom right corner.

col

color of the title box and frame border.

coltitle

color of the title.

theme

name of a cartographic palette (see carto.pal.info). col and coltitle are set according to the chosen palette.

bg

color of the frame background.

scale

size of the scale bar in kilometers. If set to FALSE, no scale bar is displayed, if set to "auto" an automatic size is used (1/10 of the map width).

posscale

position of the scale, can be "bottomright", "bottomleft" or a vector of two coordinates (c(x, y))

frame

whether displaying a frame (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

north

whether displaying a North arrow (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

south

whether displaying a South arrow (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

extent

sf object or Spatial*DataFrame; sets the extent of the frame to the one of a spatial object. (optional)

tabtitle

size of the title box either a full banner (FALSE) or a "tab" (TRUE).

postitle

position of the title, one of "left", "center", "right".

Details

If extent is not set, plot.new has to be called first. The size of the title box in layoutLayer is fixed to 1.2 lines height.

See Also

labelLayer

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(sf)
mtq <- st_read(system.file("gpkg/mtq.gpkg", package="cartography"))
plot(st_geometry(mtq), col = "#D1914D", border = "white", bg = "#A6CAE0")
# Layout plot
layoutLayer()

plot(st_geometry(mtq), col = "#D1914D", border = "white", bg = "#A6CAE0")
# Layout plot
layoutLayer(title = "Martinique",
            author =  paste0("cartography ", packageVersion("cartography")),
            tabtitle = TRUE, scale = 5, north = TRUE, frame = FALSE,
            theme = "sand.pal")
# }