[R] overlaying a levelplot on a map plot

Peter Ehlers ehlers at ucalgary.ca
Wed Apr 21 21:33:44 CEST 2010


Try using contour() instead of levelplot. See the examples
in help('contour') for how to add contour lines to an
existing plot.

  -Peter Ehlers

On 2010-04-21 13:08, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Simon Goodman wrote:
>
>>
>> I've generated a levelplot showing the density distribution of a species
>> derived from survey transects, with lon, lat co-ordinates.
>>
>> I'd like to overlay this on a map of the study region specified by:
>>
>> map('worldHires', xlim = range(mlon), ylim = range(mlat)), where mlon,
>> mlat
>> specifies the study region.
>
>  > ?map
> No documentation for 'map' in specified packages and libraries:
> you could try '??map'
>  > ??map
>  > require(maps)
> Loading required package: maps
>  > map
>
> So map uses base graphics.
>
>
>> I've tried plotting the map first, then using the options: 'add=TRUE,
>> axes=FALSE' in the levelplot,
>
>
> levelplot is a lattice function. You will have failure with most efforts
> to mix base and grid graphics.
>
>
>
>
>> but this doesn't work - a new plot is
>> generated for the level plot despite the 'add' option. If I try to add
>> the
>> map on top of the level plot, they are not to the same scale.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to get round this.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
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-- 
Peter Ehlers
University of Calgary



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