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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).

Recently I have been struggling when trying to embed a leaflet map created with RStudio on my blog, hosted in GitHub via Jekyll (Spoiler: I succeeded ). In my case, I use the Chulapa remote theme created by myself.