I think I must be overlooking something very simple here.
I'd like to apply labels to a set of polygons. Specifically, I'm trying to place labels on a handful of California congressional districts.
I begin by getting the basemap (socal) and overlaying data from my district SPDF (congress) over it:
socal <- get_map(location = "Riverside, USA", zoom = 8, source = "google",
maptype = "roadmap")
somap <- ggmap(socal) +
geom_polygon(data = congress,
aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group),
fill = "#F17521", color = "#1F77B4", alpha = .6)
So far, so good.
But then I'd like to label each polygon, so I create a new variable:
congress@data$DistrictLabel <- paste("CD", congress@data$DISTRICT, sep = "")
And when I try to add this to my map...
somap + geom_text(data = congress, aes(x = long, y = lat, label = DistrictLabel))
I get the following error:
Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos) : object 'DistrictLabel' not found
I know I'm overlooking something obvious, but I can't figure out what it is! Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
For labels, I usually derive the polygons centroids first and plot based on those. I don't think ggplot2 has any automatic way to position text labels based on polygons. I think you have to specify it. Something like the following should work:
library(dplyr)
library(sp)
library(rgeos)
library(ggplot2)
##Add centroid coordinates to your polygon dataset
your_SPDF@data <- cbind(your_SPDF@data,rgeos::gCentroid(your_SPDF,byid = T) %>% coordinates())
ggplot(your_SPDF) +
geom_polygon(data=your_SPDF,aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group),
fill = "#F17521", color = "#1F77B4", alpha = .6) +
geom_text(data = your_SPDF@data, aes(x = x, y = y),label = your_SPDF$your_label)