R Highlighting some of the boundaries (or borders) of the region in a shape file with spplot() - r

I am working on a shape file and like to highlight some of the boundaries (borders) of the regions (as figure 1):
Figure 1: some but not all of the regions (borders) of the shape file are highlighted
(Source: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48721006/highlighted.png)
The highlighting is achieved with ArcMap. I can't figure out how to do the same with R (particularly with the spplot()). Any suggestions on this?
To get the shape file
library(sp)
library(maptools)
con <- url("http://gadm.org/data/rda/ZAF_adm2.RData")
print(load(con))
close(con)
plot(gadm)
Many thanks!
G

What I would do: (1) plot the complete set; (2) take a subset; (3) plot the subset with a different line type. For subsetting shape files, check this question.
plot(gadm)
# check class and structure of the data
class(gadm)
head(gadm#data)
# take a subset based on ID_2
some_polygons = subset(gadm,ID_2>=38840 & ID_2<38850)
plot(some_polygons, add=T, border='cyan', lwd=2)

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I am using the statspat package because I am working on spatial patterns.
I would like to do in ggplot and with colors instead of numbers (because it is not too readable),
the following graph, produced with the plot.quadratest function: Polygone
The numbers that interest me for the intensity of the colors are those at the bottom of each box.
The test object contains the following data:
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I have looked at the help of the function, as well as the code of the function but I still cannot manage it.
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Please provide a reproducible example in the future.
The package reprex may be very helpful.
To use ggplot2 for this my best bet would be to convert
spatstat objects to sf and do the plotting that way,
but it may take some time. If you are willing to use base
graphics and spatstat you could do something like:
library(spatstat)
# Data (using a built-in dataset):
X <- unmark(chorley)
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# Test:
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# Default plot:
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counts <- attr(test, "quadratcount")
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I have a map of Russia with regional subdivision
library(raster)
data <- getData('GADM', country='RUS', level=1)
http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B16_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/08-01.doc
The link is to a Word.doc with data (table) on crime rates for Russian regions. I can extract this data and use it in R. I want to take 2015 year and colorize regions on the map depending on the crime rate (also add a legend). How can I do this? The problem is that names of regions are sometimes different in the shape file (NL_NAME_1) and in the data from www.gks.ru.
I also have this code for graph that I need, except that here we have meaningless colors:
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library(RColorBrewer)
data$region <- as.factor(iconv(as.character(data$NAME_1)))
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Note, please, that the data is a reserved word in R. So, it's better to modify a little your variable name:
geo_data <- getData('GADM', country = 'RUS', level = 1)
Let's emulate some data to demonstrate a visualization strategy:
set.seed(23)
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Using a default GADM projection would cut the most eastern part of the country. A simple transformation helps to fit the whole area to a plot:
# fit Russian area inside the plot
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Draw the map selecting data_to_plot instead of region:
max_data_val <- max(geo_data_trsf#data$data_to_plot)
spplot(geo_data_trsf, zcol = "data_to_plot",
col.regions = colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(12, "Set3"))(max_data_val),
col = "white")
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Using a raster attribute from a multi-attribute raster for colour levels in a plot in R

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res(r) = c(1,0.5)
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#extra code to set attribute as the level to use for plotting colours???
rcrop = ratify(rcrop)
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#…
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rasterVis::levelplot does a nice job of labelling colour ramps corresponding to factor rasters, and while it provides an att argument allowing you to specify which attribute you're interested in, this seems to only modify the labelling of the ramp. Raster cell values control how the colour ramp is mapped to the raster, so it seems to me that we need to modify the cell values themselves. Maybe #OscarPerpiñán will chime in here to prove me wrong :)
We can create a simple function to substitute the original cell values with whichever attribute we want:
switch_att <- function(r, att) {
r[] <- levels(r)[[1]][values(r), att]
r
}
Let's download and import a small example polygon dataset from Natural Earth:
library(rasterVis)
library(rgdal)
require(RColorBrewer)
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'http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural',
'ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip'),
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unzip(f, exdir=tempdir())
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layer(sp.polygons(shp, lwd=0.5))
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EDIT
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Clearing plotted points in R

I am trying to use the animation package to generate an "evolving" plot of points on a map. The map is generated from shapefiles (from the readShapeSpatial/readShapeLines functions).
The problem is when it's plotted in a for loop, the result is additive, whereas the ideal result is to have it evolve.
Are there ways of using par() that I am missing?
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and not clearing the entire figure thus not having to regraph the shapefiles?
in case someone wants to see code:
# plotting underlying map
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ani.options(interval=.05)
saveGIF({
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points(Var$Lon,Var$Lat,col=colcode)
}
})
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points(Var$Lon, Var$Lat, col="grey25")
It may leave gaps in other previously plotted figures or boundaries, because it's definitely not object-oriented. The lattice and ggplot2 graphics models are more object oriented, so if you want to post a reproducible example, that might be an alternate path to "moving" forward. I seem to remember that the rgl package has animation options in its repetoire.

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