On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Edzer Pebesma wrote:
On 28/02/2024 06:04, Xiang Ye via R-sig-Geo wrote:
Dear community,
I recently revisited the expandBB argument in the plot() function for sf
objects. It conveys a numeric vector of length 4 to expand the default
canvas (in the order of bottom, left, top, right) when drawing an sf
object. A quick refresh is here:
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I am curious about the unit for the four values of the expandBB argument.
In the help document, it only says the values are "fraction values to
expand the bounding box with":
https://r-spatial.github.io/sf/reference/plot.html#:~:text=fractional%20values%20to%20expand%20the%20bounding%20box%20with
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However, it did not explicitly mention the unit adopted for the values.
My guess:
For the 1st and 3rd values in the argument, the unit is the height of the
bounding box of the sf object; therefore a value of 0.2 expands (downward
and upward, respectively) the canvas by 20% of the height of the bounding
box.
For the 2nd and 4th values in the argument, the unit is the width of the
bounding box of the sf object; therefore a value of 0.2 expands (leftward
and rightward, respectively) the canvas by 20% of the width of the
bounding box.
Is my understanding correct?
Yes. It takes 4 values for each of the sides (bottom, left, top, right). You
can use xlim and ylim to set the plot region in spatial coordinates.
The code is at:
https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/blob/bd1940f68dd7607b7e9098ccc32c99e273c30a60/R/plot.R#L598-L611
based on the equivalent in sp:
https://github.com/edzer/sp/blob/e60dedf3ff3d06d9ebd9d38818b072e4475758cf/R/Spatial-methods.R#L211-L226
and added in a commit 8 years ago:
https://github.com/edzer/sp/commit/d65045951bfebf28fbd5d0ad56bfff3cb48d57a8.
So the units are implicitly those of sp::bbox() and sf::st_bbox().
Roger
Thank you in advance!
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