Worldwide or Coordinates-Based Heat Maps

Easily plot heat maps of the world, based on continuous or categorical data. Country labels can also be added to the map.


WorldMapR (v 1.3.0) is an R package for creating world heat maps, based on continuous or categorical variables.

The attached vignette provides further information about how to use this package.

WorldMapR is currently on CRAN - DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.WorldMapR

Future updates will address the following:

  • improve documentation for EPSG coordinates
  • improve vignette readability
  • Add option to use ESRI coordinates

Reference manual

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install.packages("WorldMapR")

1.3.0 by Luigi Annicchiarico, a year ago


https://github.com/Luigi-Annic/WorldMapR/


Report a bug at https://github.com/Luigi-Annic/WorldMapR/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/WorldMapR


Authors: Luigi Annicchiarico [cre, aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports ggplot2, sf, countrycode, utils, ggfx

Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat


See at CRAN