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cartography (version 2.1.0)

north: North Arrow

Description

Plot a north arrow.

Usage

north(pos = "topright", col = "grey20", south = FALSE)

Arguments

pos

position of the north arrow. It can be one of "topleft", "top", "topright", "right", "bottomright", "bottom", "bottomleft", "left" or a vector of two coordinates in map units (c(x, y)).

col

arrow color.

south

plot a south arrow instead.

See Also

layoutLayer

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
library(sp)
data("nuts2006")
plot(nuts0.spdf, col = "grey60",border = "grey20", add=FALSE)
box()
for (i in list("topleft", "top", "topright", "right", "bottomright", 
               "bottom", "bottomleft", "left", c(3502127, 4770427))){
  north(i)
}

library(sf)
mtq <- st_read(system.file("shape/martinique.shp", package="cartography"))
plot(st_geometry(mtq))
box()
for (i in list("topleft", "top", "topright", "right", "bottomright", 
               "bottom", "bottomleft", "left", c(746368, 1632993))){
  north(i, south = TRUE)
}
# }

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