I'm working on a project where I need to plot a buffer around a centroid in R. I'm also using this centroid buffer to do an intersection with another geometry.
The problem I'm facing is that the buffer border is not a very well defined circle and doesn't look good when I plot both the circle and the intersection.
My code looks somewhat like this:
library(sf)
library(ggplot2)
circle <- st_buffer(centroid, 100000)
intersection <- st_intersection(geometry,circle)
ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = circle, fill = "yellow")
Not so bad! That said, if you really want to smooth the circle/buffer border, you can use the package smoothr
.
Here is one possibility :
library(smoothr)
# Smooth circle border
circle_smooth <- smooth(densify(circle, max_distance = 10), method = "ksmooth")
# Plot
ggplot2::ggplot()+
ggplot2::geom_sf(data= circle_smooth, fill = "yellow")