Thematic Cartography

Create and integrate thematic maps in your workflow. This package helps to design various cartographic representations such as proportional symbols, choropleth or typology maps. It also offers several functions to display layout elements that improve the graphic presentation of maps (e.g. scale bar, north arrow, title, labels). 'mapsf' maps 'sf' objects on 'base' graphics.

mapsf

Create thematic maps and integrate them into your R workflow.

This package helps you design different cartographic representations such as proportional symbols, choropleths, or typology maps. It also provides several functions for displaying layout elements that enhance the graphical presentation of maps (e.g., scale bar, north arrow, title, labels). mapsf maps sf objects on base graphics.

Installation

You can install the released version of mapsf from CRAN with:

install.packages("mapsf")

Alternatively, you can install the development version of mapsf (the dev branch) from r-universe with:

install.packages("mapsf", repos = c("https://riatelab.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))

Usage

This is a basic example which shows how to create a map with mapsf.

library(mapsf)
# Import the sample dataset
mtq <- mf_get_mtq()
# Plot the base map
mf_map(x = mtq)
# Plot proportional symbols
mf_map(x = mtq, var = "POP", type = "prop", leg_pos = "topright", add = TRUE)
# Plot a map layout
mf_layout(
  title = "Population in Martinique",
  credits = "T. Giraud; Sources: INSEE & IGN, 2018"
)

You can find more detailed examples on the “Get Started” section of the package website and you can also download its cheat sheet.

mapsf.gui

The mapsf.gui package provides a Shiny interface for creating thematic maps using mapsf. Users of the application can build thematic maps interactively and automatically generate the corresponding R code to reproduce the map identically.

Alternatives

• tmap
• ggplot2 + ggspatial

Community Guidelines

One can contribute to the package through pull requests and report issues or ask questions here. See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for detailed instructions on how to contribute.
This project uses conventional commits and semantic versioning.