Package description

Create and integrate thematic maps in your workflow. This package helps to design various cartographic representations such as proportional symbols, choropleth or typology maps. It also offers several functions to display layout elements that improve the graphic presentation of maps (e.g. scale bar, north arrow, title, labels). mapsf maps sf objects on base graphics.

A "Get Started" vignette contains commented scripts on how to create various maps: vignette(topic = "mapsf", package = "mapsf")

Symbology

These functions display cartographic layers.

• mf_map() Plot a map

• mf_label() Plot labels

• mf_raster() Plot a raster

• mf_graticule() Plot graticules

Map layout

These functions are dedicated to the map layout design.

• mf_theme() Set a theme

• mf_shadow() Plot a shadow

• mf_background() Plot a background image

• mf_annotation() Plot an annotation

• mf_arrow() Plot a north arrow

• mf_credits() Plot credits

• mf_layout() Plot a map layout

• mf_title() Plot a title

• mf_scale() Plot a scale bar

• mf_inset_on() / mf_inset_off() Plot an inset

• mf_worldmap() Plot a point on a world map

• mf_legend() Plot a legend

Utility functions

• mf_export() Export a map

• mf_distr() Plot a distribution

• mf_get_links() Get a link layer from a data.frame of links

• mf_get_pal() Get color palettes

• mf_get_breaks() Get class intervals

• mf_get_mtq() Get the 'mtq' dataset

• mf_get_ratio() Get map width and height values

• mf_get_pencil() Get a pencil layer from polygons

• mf_get_borders() Get a border layer from polygons

See also

Useful links:

• https://riatelab.github.io/mapsf/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/riatelab/mapsf/issues/

Author

Maintainer: Timothée Giraud timothee.giraud@cnrs.fr (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Hugues Pecout (ORCID) (Logo) [contributor]

• Ronan Ysebaert (ORCID) (Cheat sheet) [contributor]

• Ian Fellows (No overlap algorithm for labels, from wordcloud package) [copyright holder]

• Jim Lemon (Arc drawing algorithm for annotations, from plotrix package) [copyright holder]