We’ll miss you, UK
Brexit and the consequences
This is just a super-quick post regarding Brexit. Leaving apart economical, political and social considerations, there is another consequence, now we are one less in the EU.
Beautiful Maps with R (III): Patterns and hatched maps
A solution for b/w and academic maps.
Updated 17 february 2020: All these pieces of work are already available on cartography >v.2.4.0 on functions hatchedLayer and legendHatched. Just install it via install.packages("cartography"). A dedicated blog post with examples on this link.
Quick R: Inset maps
An alternative using plot()
How to place an inset map in R? There are many solutions out there using the ggplot2 package (see Drawing beautiful maps programmatically with R, sf and ggplot2 by Mel Moreno and Mathieu Basille). However, I like the old reliable plot function, so the question is: is there another way?
Wikipedia Maps (I): Organ donor rates
A choropleth map with R
This is a quick post on how to create a map as per the Wikipedia conventions. In this case I have chosen to plot the international organ donor rates, retrieved on 2019-02-10 although the data refers to 2017 (Source: IRODaT).
Beautiful Maps with R (II): Fun with flags
Put a picture on your map
Want to use a flag (or any *.png file) as a background of your map? You are in the right post.