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fortify.map

Fortify method for map objects

Description

This function turns a map into a data frame that can more easily be plotted with ggplot2.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'map'
fortify(model, data, ...)

Arguments

model

map object
data

not used by this method
...

not used by this method

See Also

Examples

if (require("maps")) {
ca <- map("county", "ca", plot = FALSE, fill = TRUE)
head(fortify(ca))
ggplot(ca, aes(long, lat)) +
  geom_polygon(aes(group = group))
}

if (require("maps")) {
tx <- map("county", "texas", plot = FALSE, fill = TRUE)
head(fortify(tx))
ggplot(tx, aes(long, lat)) +
  geom_polygon(aes(group = group), colour = "white")
}
ggplot2

Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

v3.3.3
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Hadley Wickham [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>), Winston Chang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-2126>), Lionel Henry [aut], Thomas Lin Pedersen [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-4711>), Kohske Takahashi [aut], Claus Wilke [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-9261>), Kara Woo [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-4188>), Hiroaki Yutani [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3385-7233>), Dewey Dunnington [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-4582>), RStudio [cph, fnd]
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