plot.sf {basf}

Plot simple features simply

Description

Overrides 'sf::plot.sf' and wraps the call to 'plot(st_geometry(x))'. When working with spatial data it's often useful to create maps where we overlay spatially coincident data in a plot.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'sf'
plot(x, ...)

Arguments

x

sf object (the data.frame one)

...

arguments passed to [sf::plot_sfc]

Details

This is used so that plots aren't always facetted by all attributes, coloured by them, or leaving the plot unusable for subsequent additional drawing. The key feature is that we don't have to change our behaviour and good habits depending on the format in use.

Value

used for its side effects of creating a plot

Examples

x <- read_sf(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))
## all we've changed is the plot command
plot(x)
## we can overplot without format-specific acrobatics
plot(x[sample(1:nrow(x), 10), ], col = rainbow(10), add = TRUE)
abline(v = 34); axis(2)