[R Course] Data Visualization with R: Map Levels

Data Visualization R Courses

A map with levels of granularity made using the raster package.

Thierry Warin https://warin.ca/aboutme.html (HEC Montréal and CIRANO (Canada))https://www.hec.ca/en/profs/thierry.warin.html
01-28-2020

This course will teach you how to draw lines to divide a country into smaller regions.

Load the following package

library(raster)

Retrieve data to create map of level 0 (Country)

Canada <- getData('GADM', country="CAN", level=0) 
plot(Canada)

Retrieve data to create map of level 1 (Provinces)

Canada <- getData('GADM', country="CAN", level=1) 
plot(Canada)

Retrieve data to create map of level 2 (Urban Division)

Canada <- getData('GADM', country="CAN", level=2) 
plot(Canada)

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Warin (2020, Jan. 28). Thierry Warin, PhD: [R Course] Data Visualization with R: Map Levels. Retrieved from https://warin.ca/posts/rcourse-datavisualizationwithr-mapslevels/

BibTeX citation

@misc{warin2020[r,
  author = {Warin, Thierry},
  title = {Thierry Warin, PhD: [R Course] Data Visualization with R: Map Levels},
  url = {https://warin.ca/posts/rcourse-datavisualizationwithr-mapslevels/},
  year = {2020}
}