gmt-package {gmt}R Documentation

Interface between GMT 4.0 Map-Making Software and R

Description

Interface between GMT 4.0 map-making software and R, enabling the user to manipulate geographic data within R and call GMT programs to draw and annotate maps in postscript format.

Details

Initialize GMT session:
gmt set graphical parameters and postscript file
Create a map:
pscoast draw
psxy annotate
pstext annotate
psbar annotate
psclose finalize
Convert and calculate:
deg2num degrees to numeric
geodist distance between coordinates
Examples:
demo.par, demo.coast, demo.xy, demo.text, demo.bar strings and data frames that make up a map
Internal:
gmt.system, r2gmt not really intended for the end user

Additional details are found on the help(package="gmt") page.

Author(s)

Arni Magnusson arnima@u.washington.edu.

References

Wessel, P. and W.H.F. Smith. 2004. The Generic Mapping Tools: Technical reference and cookbook. Version 4. Available at http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/pdf/GMT_Docs.pdf.

See Also

Other packages that can be used to draw maps include: GRASS, maps and PBSmapping.


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