Drawing Maps in R

This is an introductory course on spatial data I taught within the CLIC Training workshops as part of the GEOSMITE Project at the European University Institute in 2020.

Lab’s Goals

• Introduce researchers to basic GIS concepts and how to read traditional GIS shapefiles in R
• Introduce researchers to the map outlines available in the maps package
• Show how to convert those data into data frames that ggplot2 can deal with
• Use ggmap and ggplot2 to make some pretty maps
• Discuss some ggplot2 related issues about plotting
• Using sp to plot maps with different projections
• Bonus: calculate distances and applications

You can click here to find and use all the materials for this course.