No need to settle for the mapping defaults in R. Apply map projections to show geographic data in a way most suitable for your work.
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Working with Map Projections and Shapefiles in R
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Rising R usage in the sciences
R continues its growth, and usage in the sciences is no exception. Nature…
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Mapping With Shapefiles in R – Getting Started
Geographic data is often available as a shapefile, and there’s plenty of heavy software to get that data in a map. R is an open source option, and as a bonus, much of the work can be done in a few lines of code.
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Moving Past Default R Charts
Customizing your charts doesn’t have to be a time-intensive process. With just a teeny bit more effort, you can get something that fits your needs.
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How to Make Dot Density Maps in R
Choropleth maps are useful to show values for areas on a map, but they can be limited. In contrast, dot density maps are sometimes better for showing distributions within regions.
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Large-ish data packages in R
If you’ve played around with R enough, there comes a time when you…
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R meme generator
Nobody asked for it, so you got it. The meme package for R…
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How to Make Gridded, Equal-Distance Dot Maps
For when your geographic data is evenly spread rather than aggregated by government boundaries.
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Optimizing your R code
Hadley Wickham offers a detailed, practical guide to finding and removing the major…
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Create a barebones R package from scratch
While we’re on an R kick, Hilary Parker described how to create an…
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R for cats and cat lovers
Following the lead of JavaScript for Cats by Maxwell Ogden, Scott Chamberlain and…
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Detecting and Plotting Sequence Changes
Change detection for a time series can be tricky, but guess what, there’s an R package for that. Then show the results in a custom plot.
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Mapping a century of earthquakes →
Earthquakes are in the news a lot lately. A quick search shows a…
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How to Make Smoothed Density Maps in R
Too many points to plot often means obscured patterns in the clutter. Density maps offer a smooth alternative.
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How to Read and Use Histograms in R
The chart type often goes overlooked because people don’t understand them. Maybe this will help.
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Interactive maps with R
You can make static maps in R relatively well, if you know what…
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Where People Run in Major Cities
There are many exercise apps that allow you to keep track of your…
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How R came to be
Statistician John Chambers, the creator of S and a core member of R,…
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Learn R interactively with the swirl package
R, the statistical computing language of choice and what I use the most,…
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How to Map Geographic Paths in R
As people and things move through a place, it can be useful to see their connected paths instead of just individual points.