Static maps in `R`

Content for Wednesday, November 16, 2022

We are going to take a little more time to understand some of the options for building static maps in R and look at a few packages that can help you build publication-quality maps without having to move into a new software.

Resources

The Drawing Beautiful Maps Programatically with R, sf, and ggplot2 chapter by Mel Moreno and Mathieu Basille provides a nice series of blogposts designed to help you build maps with sf objects.
Creating beautiful demographic maps in R with the tidycensus and tmap packages by Zev Ross illustrates the simplicity of mapping with tmap.
Displaying time series, spatial and space-time data with R by Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro has a bunch of interesting code for producing maps contained in the book by the same name.

Objectives

By the end of today you should be able to:

Construct a map using ggplot2 and tmap
Combine vector and raster data in the same map
Add annotations and inset maps to decorate your map

Slides

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