# Lesson 4. Adjust plot extent in R.

## Learning Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:

• Adjust the spatial extent of a plot using the ext= argument in R.

## What you need

You will need a computer with internet access to complete this lesson and the data for week 6 of the course.

## Review: What is an extent?

all_landsat_bands <- list.files("data/week06/Landsat/LC80340322016189-SC20170128091153/crop",
pattern=glob2rx("*band*.tif\$"),
full.names = T) # use the dollar sign at the end to get all files that END WITH

all_landsat_bands_st <- stack(all_landsat_bands)
## Error in x[[1]]: subscript out of bounds

# turn the axis color to white and turn off ticks
par(col.axis="white", col.lab="white", tck=0)
# plot the data - be sure to turn AXES to T (we just color them white)
plotRGB(all_landsat_bands_st,
r=4, g=3, b=2,
stretch="hist",
main = "Pre-fire RGB image with cloud\n Cold Springs Fire",
axes=T)
## Error in plotRGB(all_landsat_bands_st, r = 4, g = 3, b = 2, stretch = "hist", : object 'all_landsat_bands_st' not found
# turn the box to white so there is no border on our plot
box(col = "white")
## Error in box(col = "white"): plot.new has not been called yet


## Adjust plot extent

We can adjust the extent of a plot using ext argument. We can give the argument the spatial extent of the fire boundary layer that we want to plot.

If our object is called fire_boundary_utm, then we’d code: ext=extent(fire_boundary_utm)

# import fire overlay boundary
## Error in ogrListLayers(dsn = dsn): Cannot open data source
# reproject the data
fire_boundary_utm <- spTransform(fire_boundary, CRS=crs(all_landsat_bands_st))
## Error in crs(all_landsat_bands_st): object 'all_landsat_bands_st' not found

# turn the axis color to white and turn off ticks
par(col.axis="white", col.lab="white", tck=0)
# plot the data - be sure to turn AXES to T (we just color them white)
plotRGB(all_landsat_bands_st,
r=4, g=3, b=2,
stretch="hist",
main = "Pre-fire RGB image with cloud\n Cold Springs Fire\n Fire boundary extent",
axes=T,
ext=extent(fire_boundary_utm))
## Error in plotRGB(all_landsat_bands_st, r = 4, g = 3, b = 2, stretch = "hist", : object 'all_landsat_bands_st' not found
# turn the box to white so there is no border on our plot
box(col = "white")
## Error in box(col = "white"): plot.new has not been called yet