Merge two spatial slendr objects into one
Arguments
- x
Object of the class
slendr- y
Object of the class
slendr- name
Optional name of the resulting geographic region. If missing, name will be constructed from the function arguments.
Value
Object of the class slendr_region which encodes a standard
spatial object of the class sf with several additional attributes
(most importantly a corresponding slendr_map object, if applicable).
Examples
# create a blank abstract world 1000x1000 distance units in size
blank_map <- world(xrange = c(0, 1000), yrange = c(0, 1000), landscape = "blank")
# it is possible to construct custom landscapes (islands, corridors, etc.)
island1 <- region("island1", polygon = list(c(10, 30), c(50, 30), c(40, 50), c(0, 40)))
island2 <- region("island2", polygon = list(c(60, 60), c(80, 40), c(100, 60), c(80, 80)))
island3 <- region("island3", center = c(20, 80), radius = 10)
archipelago <- island1 %>% join(island2) %>% join(island3)
custom_map <- world(xrange = c(1, 100), c(1, 100), landscape = archipelago)
# real Earth landscapes can be defined using freely-available Natural Earth
# project data and with the possibility to specify an appropriate Coordinate
# Reference System, such as this example of a map of Europe
real_map <- world(xrange = c(-15, 40), yrange = c(30, 60), crs = "EPSG:3035")
#> Reading layer `ne_110m_land' from data source
#> `/private/var/folders/70/b_q2zdh116b9pfg29p03sx600000gn/T/RtmptqGItF/naturalearth/ne_110m_land.shp'
#> using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 127 features and 3 fields
#> Geometry type: POLYGON
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -180 ymin: -90 xmax: 180 ymax: 83.64513
#> Geodetic CRS: WGS 84