Automatically center a projection on the plotted map

R-bloggers · Oct 22, 2026

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Following this previous post and this discussion on Mastodon, I wrote a function that wraps a combination of functions from the ‘terra’ package to project a SpatRaster or SpatVector layer while automatically centering the projection on that layer, to minimize visual distortion:

projectCentered <- function(x, #…