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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.

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?

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).

Want to use a flag (or any *.png file) as a background of your map? You are in the right post.

Sometimes you want to produce maps with special layouts. I specially like maps with modified geometries, e.g. simplifiying the original shapes to squares or dots. When doing a little search over the web I found the fantastic post Fishnets and Honeycomb: Square vs. Hexagonal Spatial Grids by Matt Strimas-Mackey that was a huge inspiration (by the way, don’t miss his blog, full of very interesting pieces of work).