Introduction to mapping with {sf} & Co.

At the “Rencontres R 2018” in Rennes, I proposed a brief introduction to mapping using the recent {sf} package and some other interesting packages. This blog post is an extended version of my presentation allowing me to share the code of the different maps that appeared on it. It’s still a brief …

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Draw maps like paintings

On the Grrr Slack, a mutual-aid Slack on R for French speaking people, Thomas Vroylandt showed the following maps asking how this could be done using {ggplot2} : EDIT : This maps was originally presented on visionscarto.net with drawings by Agnès Stienne […] As of today (2018-04-18): …

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Spatial correlation between rasters

In this blog article, I propose a way to look at the spatial repartition of correlation between two rasters. For your own reason, you may want to know the correlation between rasters, but a unique value issued from fonction cor is not enough. You would like to know if there are variations of …

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Spatial interpolation on Earth as a 3D sphere

Earth map is usually presented flat. Geographical coordinates usually go from -180° to +180°. Spatial interpolations using coordinates may be tricky as -180° is equal to +180°. Here I propose a way to realize spatial interpolations on Earth as a sphere and then map the outputs in 3D using rgl. The …

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Polygons tint band with leaflet and simple feature (library sf)

Let’s use some French regions polygons and attribute one colour to each region. I like piratepal colours of library yarrr. […] To create the doughnuts using original and buffer polygons, I used st_difference. However as discussed with edzer in the sf github repository, I had to transform the …

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