How To Make Geographic Map Visualizations (10 Must-Know Tidyverse Functions #6)
Written by Matt Dancho on December 8, 2020
This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks.
If you are explaining data related to geography or just want to visualize by latitude / longitude location, you need to know ggplot2
& the tidyverse
for making maps.
This tutorial will show you how to make a publication-quality visualization! Here are the links to get set up. 👇

Working with Map Data
The first thing we need when creating a map is data that represents the latitude and longitude. We need to use a function called map_data()
to collect the data in the right structure for a ggplot2
map.
Map Data
Using the map_data()
function to collect lat/long data for the entire World.
Plotting the Map Data with ggplot2
We can use the geom_map()
& coord_map()
functions to plot the world.
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