north {cartography}

North Arrow

Description

Plot a north arrow.

Usage

north(pos = "topright", col = "grey20", south = FALSE, x = NULL)

Arguments

pos

position of the north arrow. It can be one of "topleft", "top", "topright", "right", "bottomright", "bottom", "bottomleft", "left" or a vector of two coordinates in map units (c(x, y)).

col

arrow color.

south

plot a south arrow instead.

x

sf or sp object used to correct the north azimuth

See Also

layoutLayer

Examples

library(sf)
mtq <- st_read(system.file("gpkg/mtq.gpkg", package="cartography"))
plot(st_geometry(mtq))
box()
for (i in list("topleft", "top", "topright", "right", "bottomright", 
               "bottom", "bottomleft", "left", c(746368, 1632993))){
  north(i, south = TRUE)
}