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Plotting points with proporcional sizes to the values over a raster map in R

I hope someone can give me a start point to solve my problem.

I have an raster image showing the occurence prediction of a clam species. So, I have a set of coordinates, xyz like, that I would like to display over this image. I've used the function points, to display the points over the map.

Example: 

myraster<-raster(nrows=250, ncols=217, xmn=540222, xmx=546732, ymn=6652656, ymx=6660156, crs=NA) # creating a raster object

set.seed(12) # placing values into raster

values(myraster) <- runif(ncell(myraster))

head(dataXYZ) # an sample of my XYZ dataset
       x       y    z
1 544500 6658000   11
2 545500 6657000    9
3 546000 6655000    2
4 544000 6655000    1
5 545000 6656500   17
6 545500 6656500   10
plot(myraster)
points(dataXYZ)

I would like to display these points with sizes proportional to the z values associated, as balloon plot in R. Also an legend.

Do Someone can give any tip to do this? An start point?

Thanks!

Solution

  • dont know what you consider a balloon plot but do you want to do this?

    x     <-  c(1, 2, 3, 4)
y     <-  c(1, 2, 3, 4)
size  <-  c(1, 2, 3, 4)

df  <-  data.frame(x, y, size)

plot(x, y, cex=size)