Use rnaturalearth to get a background map in sf format for plotting with ggplot

arvi1000 · September 10, 2019, 9:55pm

Sometimes you just need some points on map. You have lat/lon points, where are you going to get a nice background map that you can plot in R, using ggplot2 and geom_sf? R natural earth!

Package or resource used*

rnaturalearth

URL or code snippet for your use case*

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/arvi1000/13eda3ad39ed89e9e196c720864b25af

.bcc_map.txt

just to rename gist

.gitignore

*.csv
*.pdf

1_map_data.R

setwd('~/Documents/personal/r_stuff/bcc_map/')

library(ggmap)
library(data.table)
library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearth)

fl_name <- 'map_data.csv'

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Field(s) of application

e.g. data visualization

What did you do?

Plotted some points on a basemap, applied a map projection

Twitter handle

arvi1000

sckott · September 10, 2019, 10:00pm

thanks for sharing @arvi1000 - nice example

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