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cartography (version 3.1.4)

legendTypo: Legend for Typology Maps

Description

Plot legend for typology maps.

Usage

legendTypo(
  pos = "topleft",
  title.txt = "Title of the legend",
  title.cex = 0.8,
  values.cex = 0.6,
  col,
  categ,
  cex = 1,
  nodata = TRUE,
  nodata.txt = "No data",
  nodata.col = "white",
  frame = FALSE,
  symbol = "box"
)

Arguments

pos

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

title.txt

title of the legend.

title.cex

size of the legend title.

values.cex

size of the values in the legend.

col

a vector of colors.

categ

vector of categories.

cex

size of the legend. 2 means two times bigger.

nodata

if TRUE a "no data" box or line is plotted.

nodata.txt

label for "no data" values.

nodata.col

color of "no data" values.

frame

whether to add a frame to the legend (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

symbol

character; 'line' or 'box'

Examples

Run this code
library(sf)
mtq <- st_read(system.file("gpkg/mtq.gpkg", package="cartography"))
plot(st_geometry(mtq))
box()

# Define labels and colors
someLabels <- c("red color", "yellow color", "green color", "black color")
someColors <- c("red", "yellow", "green", "black")

# plot legend
legendTypo(pos = "bottomleft", title.txt = "Title of the legend", title.cex = 0.8,
           values.cex = 0.6, col = someColors, categ = someLabels, 
           cex = 0.75,
           nodata = TRUE, nodata.txt = "no data", frame = TRUE, symbol="box")
legendTypo(pos = "topright", title.txt = "", 
           title.cex = 1.5, cex = 1.25,
           values.cex = 1, col = someColors, categ = someLabels, 
           nodata = FALSE, frame = FALSE, symbol="line")

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