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Scales in tmap are configured by the family of functions with prefix `tm_scale`. Such function should be used for the input of the `.scale` arguments in the layer functions (e.g. `fill.scale` in [tm_polygons()]). The function `tm_scale_composition()` is used for the creation of composition glyphs, such as pie charts and donut charts.

Usage

tm_scale_composition(
  values = NA,
  values.repeat = FALSE,
  values.range = NA,
  values.scale = 1,
  value.na = NA,
  value.null = NA,
  value.neutral = NA,
  labels = NULL,
  label.na = NA,
  label.null = NA
)

Arguments

values

(generic scale argument) The visual values. For colors (e.g. `fill` or `col` for `tm_polygons()`) this is a palette name from the `cols4all` package (see [cols4all::c4a()]) or vector of colors, for size (e.g. `size` for `tm_symbols()`) these are a set of sizes (if two values are specified they are interpret as range), for symbol shapes (e.g. `shape` for [tm_symbols()]) these are a set of symbols, etc. The tmap option `values.var` contains the default values per visual variable and in some cases also per data type.

values.repeat

(generic scale argument) Should the values be repeated in case there are more categories?

values.range

(generic scale argument) Range of the values. Vector of two numbers (both between 0 and 1) where the first determines the minimum and the second the maximum. Full range, which means that all values are used, is encoded as `c(0, 1)`. For instance, when a grey scale is used for color (from black to white), `c(0,1)` means that all colors are used, `0.25, 0.75` means that only colors from dark grey to light grey are used (more precisely `"grey25"` to `"grey75"`), and `0, 0.5` means that only colors are used from black to middle grey (`"grey50"`). When only one number is specified, this is interpreted as the second number (where the first is set to 0). Default values can be set via the tmap option `values.range`.

values.scale

(generic scale argument) Scaling of the values. Only useful for size-related visual variables, such as `size` of [tm_symbols()] and `lwd` of [tm_lines()].

value.na

(generic scale argument) Value used for missing values. See tmap option `"value.na"` for defaults per visual variable.

value.null

(generic scale argument) Value used for NULL values. See tmap option `"value.null"` for defaults per visual variable. Null data values occur when out-of-scope features are shown (e.g. for a map of Europe showing a data variable per country, the null values are applied to countries outside Europe).

value.neutral

(generic scale argument) Value that can be considered neutral. This is used for legends of other visual variables of the same map layer. E.g. when both `fill` and `size` are used for [tm_symbols()] (using filled circles), the size legend items are filled with the `value.neutral` color from the `fill.scale` scale, and fill legend items are bubbles of size `value.neutral` from the `size.scale` scale.

labels

(generic scale argument) Labels

label.na

(generic scale argument) Label for missing values

label.null

(generic scale argument) Label for null (out-of-scope) values