New features on cartography package
Vignette of the package expansion
Introduction
We’ll miss you, UK
Brexit and the consequences
This is just a short post regarding Brexit. Setting aside economic, political
and social considerations, there is another consequence: there is now one less
country in the EU.
Beautiful maps with R (III): Patterns and hatched maps
A solution for black-and-white and academic maps
Updated 17 February 2020: All these pieces of work are already available
in cartography >v.2.4.0 through the hatchedLayer
and legendHatched
functions. Just install it via install.packages("cartography"). A dedicated
blog post with examples is available at 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 according to the
Wikipedia conventions.
In this case, I have chosen to plot the
international organ donor rates,
retrieved on February 10, 2019, although the data refers to 2017 (source:
IRODaT).