R: Plot of the world

world {fields} | R Documentation

## Plot of the world

### Description

Plots quickly, medium resolution outlines of large land masses. This is a simple wrapper for the map function from the maps package.

### Usage

    world(...)
    world.land(  ...)
    world.color( ... )
    in.land.grid(...)

### Arguments

`...` | Same arguments used by the `map` function from the maps package.

### Details

See the longstanding `maps` package for documentation on this function. The functions world.land, world.color and in.land.grid have been depreciated but can be recovered from versions of fields 6.7.1 or older.

### See Also

US, in.poly, in.poly.grid

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    world()
    # add the US
    US( add=TRUE,col="blue")

    world( fill=TRUE) # land filled in black

    ## Western Europe
    world( xlim=c(-10,18),ylim=c(36,60),fill=TRUE, col="darkgreen",
    border="green1")

    ## End(Not run)

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