ggplot2 (version 0.9.2.1)

fortify.sp: Fortify method for classes from the sp package.

Description

To figure out the correct variable name for region, inspect as.data.frame(model).

Usage

## S3 method for class 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame':
fortify(model, data,
    region = NULL, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'SpatialPolygons':
fortify(model, data, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'Polygons':
fortify(model, data, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'Polygon':
fortify(model, data, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'SpatialLinesDataFrame':
fortify(model, data,
    ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'Lines':
fortify(model, data, ...)
  ## S3 method for class 'Line':
fortify(model, data, ...)

Arguments

model

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame to convert into a dataframe.

data

not used by this method

region

name of variable used to split up regions

...

not used by this method

Examples

if (require("maptools")) {
 sids <- system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")
 nc1 <- readShapePoly(sids,
   proj4string = CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=NAD27"))
 nc1_df <- fortify(nc1)
}