basf

The goal of basf is to plot simple features in a base graphics way that sp did.

Installation

devtools::install_github("mdsumner/basf")

The idea is to use library(basf) instead of library(sf) and get on with the job.

Example

There will be a warning when basf starts up because this is what it does.

Registered S3 method overwritten by 'basf':
  method  from
  plot.sf sf  

This is a basic example which shows the only impact of basf.

library(basf)

## all the stuff is available
x <- read_sf(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))

## all we've changed is the plot command
plot(x)
plot(x[sample(1:nrow(x), 10), ], col = rainbow(10), add = TRUE)
## overplotting works
axis(1); axis(2)
abline(v = -80, h = -34)

Without basf, we would have to do extra format-aware workarounds when setting up the plot. I find this incredibly disruptive, perhaps because I’ve used R and sp for so long - I use plotting every day to verify my work. It makes no sense to me to make things format-specific so I’m kind of mystified as to why it’s gone this way.

library(sf)
x <- read_sf(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))

plot(x[1], reset = FALSE, col = NA, main = "")
plot(x[sample(1:nrow(x), 10), ], col = rainbow(10), add = TRUE)
axis(1); axis(2)
abline(v = -80, h = -34)

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