Worldmap {DataVisualizations}

plots a world map by country codes

Description

The Worldmap function is used in [Thrun, 2018].

Usage

Worldmap(CountryCodes, Cls, Colors, 

MissingCountryColor = grDevices::gray(0.8), ...)

Arguments

CountryCodes

[1:n] vector of characters identifying countries by ISO 3166 codes (2 or 3 letters)

Cls

[1:n] numerical vector of classification

Colors

optional, vector of charcters specifying the used colors

MissingCountryColor

if not all countries are specified in CountryCodes then the color of non relevant countries can be changed here

...

Further arguments passed on to plot, see also sp::SpatialPolygons-class

Value

List of

Colors

[1:m] colors used in map, m<=n

CountryCodeList

[1:m] countries found, m<=n

world_country_polygons

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

Author(s)

Michae Thrun

References

Used in

[Thrun, 2018] Thrun, M. C. : Cluster Analysis of the World Gross-Domestic Product Based on Emergent Self-Organization of a Swarm, 12th Professor Aleksander Zelias International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, Foundation of the Cracow University of Economics, Zakopane, Poland, accepted, 2018.

Source for shapefile: - package maptoops and

Originally 'mappinghacks.com/data/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip', now available from https://github.com/nasa/World-Wind-Java/tree/master/WorldWind/testData/shapefiles

Examples

# data from [Thrun, 2018]
Cls=c(1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 
2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 
1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 
2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 
2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 
1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 
2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 
2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 
2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 
2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L
)
Codes=c("AFG", "AGO", "ALB", "ARG", "ATG", "AUS", "AUT", "BDI", "BEL", 
"BEN", "BFA", "BGD", "BGR", "BHR", "BHS", "BLZ", "BMU", "BOL", 
"BRA", "BRB", "BRN", "BTN", "BWA", "CAF", "CAN", "CH2", "CHE", 
"CHL", "CHN", "CIV", "CMR", "COG", "COL", "COM", "CPV", "CRI", 
"CUB", "CYP", "DJI", "DMA", "DNK", "DOM", "DZA", "ECU", "EGY", 
"ESP", "ETH", "FIN", "FJI", "FRA", "FSM", "GAB", "GBR", "GER", 
"GHA", "GIN", "GMB", "GNB", "GNQ", "GRC", "GRD", "GTM", "GUY", 
"HKG", "HND", "HTI", "HUN", "IDN", "IND", "IRL", "IRN", "IRQ", 
"ISL", "ISR", "ITA", "JAM", "JOR", "JPN", "KEN", "KHM", "KIR", 
"KNA", "KOR", "LAO", "LBN", "LBR", "LCA", "LKA", "LSO", "LUX", 
"MAC", "MAR", "MDG", "MDV", "MEX", "MHL", "MLI", "MLT", "MNG", 
"MOZ", "MRT", "MUS", "MWI", "MYS", "NAM", "NER", "NGA", "NIC", 
"NLD", "NOR", "NPL", "NZL", "OMN", "PAK", "PAN", "PER", "PHL", 
"PLW", "PNG", "POL", "PRI", "PRT", "PRY", "ROM", "RWA", "SDN", 
"SEN", "SGP", "SLB", "SLE", "SLV", "SOM", "STP", "SUR", "SWE", 
"SWZ", "SYC", "SYR", "TCD", "TGO", "THA", "TON", "TTO", "TUN", 
"TUR", "TWN", "TZA", "UGA", "URY", "USA", "VCT", "VEN", "VNM", 
"VUT", "WSM", "ZAF", "ZAR", "ZMB", "ZWE")
Worldmap(Codes,Cls)