R cartography package colored pencil - Get Pencil Layer problem

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I'm trying the R cartography package. Had to work to find a US state shapefile that would like to work with the cartography stuff - many seemed too big, etc.. I seemed to get everything going well, but the state of Colorado misplots.

library(cartography)
library(sf)
library(RColorBrewer)
library(maps)
library(ggplot2)

rm(list = ls())

# USA shape file
states <- st_as_sf(map("state", plot = F, fill = TRUE))

#seems to plot correctly here
#ggplot(states) + geom_sf(aes(fill = ID))

usa <- st_transform(states, 
                    CRS("+proj=aea +lat_1=29.5 +lat_2=45.5 +lat_0=37.5 +lon_0=-96"))

# still seems to plot fine
#ggplot(usa) + geom_sf(aes(fill = ID))

usa <- st_buffer(usa, dist=0)

datamap <- usa

datamap$randoVar <- sample(1:3, length(datamap$ID), replace = T)

datamap_pencil <- getPencilLayer(
  x = datamap, 
  buffer = 500,
  size = 400, 
  lefthanded = F
)

plot(st_geometry(usa), col = "white", border = "black", bg = "lightblue1")

typoLayer(
  x = datamap_pencil,
  var="randoVar",
  col = c("aquamarine4", "yellow3","#3c5cb0"),
  lwd = .7,
  legend.values.order = 1:3,
  legend.pos = "bottomleft",
  legend.title.txt = "",
  add = TRUE
)

labelLayer(x = datamap, txt = "ID", 
           cex = 0.9, halo = TRUE, r = 0.15)

I first noticed because when I tried to merge in a data file and do a fill with that feature, colorado came up as "No Data". Likewise, the code above seems to indicate the state gemometry or ID is off. I don't know enough GIS to understand why. I did have to change the CRS projection so that I could buffer the map file (getPencilLayer kept throwing a self-intercection error, which seems to be common with R mapping).

dieghernan · Answer

it seems that is not a problem of cartography but of the map object. I checked with st_is_valid and found a bunch of geometries non-valid. You can fix that with lwgeom::st_make_valid, see a full reprex: library(cartography) library(sf) library(RColorBrewer) library(maps) library(ggplot2) rm(list = ls()) # USA shape file states <- st_as_sf(map("state", plot = F, fill = TRUE)) usa <- st_transform(states, "+proj=aea +lat_1=29.5 +lat_2=45.5 +lat_0=37.5 +lon_0=-96") datamap <- usa # Check validity---- st_is_valid(datamap) #> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [13] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [25] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [37] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [49] TRUE #Make valid library(lwgeom) datamap<-st_make_valid(datamap) st_is_valid(datamap) #> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [16] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [31] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE #> [46] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE # Start cartography datamap$randoVar <- sample(1:3, length(datamap$ID), replace = T) datamap_pencil <- getPencilLayer( x = datamap, buffer = 500, size = 400, lefthanded = F ) plot(st_geometry(usa), col = "white", border = "black", bg = "lightblue1") typoLayer( x = datamap_pencil, var="randoVar", col = c("aquamarine4", "yellow3","#3c5cb0"), lwd = .7, legend.values.order = 1:3, legend.pos = "bottomleft", legend.title.txt = "", add = TRUE ) Created on 2020-02-25 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

R cartography package colored pencil - Get Pencil Layer problem

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