knitr::include_graphics(c("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg/300px-Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg", "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Chol_an.gif/300px-Chol_an.gif"))

• Extensive and rapidly expanding spatial packages
• Interface with 'conventional' GIS software
• The advantages of the command-line:

"With the advent of “modern” GIS software, most people want to point and click their way through life. That’s good, but there is a tremendous amount of flexibility and power waiting for you with the command line. Many times you can do something on the command line in a fraction of the time you can do it with a GUI (Sherman 2008, p. 283)

• R's visualisation capabilities have evolved over time
• Used to create plots in the best academic journals
• ggplot2 has revolutionised the visualisation of quantitative information in R, and (possibly) overall
• Thus there are different camps with different preferences when it comes to maps in R

If you cannot visualise your data, it is very difficult to understand your data. Conversely, visualisation will greatly aid in communicating your results.

Human beings are remarkably adept at discerning relationships from visual representations. A well-crafted graph can help you make meaningful comparisons among thousands of pieces of information, extracting patterns not easily found through other methods. … Data analysts need to look at their data, and this is one area where R shines. (Kabacoff, 2009, p. 45).

base graphics

Source: Cheshire and Lovelace (2014) - available online

Source: This tutorial!

census

Dutch shipping routes

Source: R-Bloggers

energy

Flexibility of ggplot2 - see robinlovelace.net

See http://www.pct.bike/

12:00 - 12:30: Introduction and downloading the data

12:30 - 13:00: Basic introduction to R and RStudio

13:00 - 14:00: Base graphics and ggplot2

14:00 - 15:00: tmap and interactive maps

• Don't just enter the code, run it then move on.
• Play with it, break it, explore it.
• I will interject at intervals with demos/advice
• It will be an iterative process - don't worry too much about timings

# Make lots of comments!

Before progressing further: Any questions?

• Download the input data from here: https://github.com/Robinlovelace/vspd-base-shiny-data

• The tutorial itself can be found here: https://github.com/Robinlovelace/Creating-maps-in-R/blob/master/vignettes/vspd-base-shiny.md

1: The internet!

Bivand, R. S., Pebesma, E. J., & Rubio, V. G. (2013). Applied spatial data analysis with R. Springer. 2nd ed.

Cheshire, J., & Lovelace, R. (2015). Spatial data visualisation with R. In C. Brunsdon & A. Singleton (Eds.), Geocomputation (pp. 1–14). SAGE Publications. Retrieved from https://github.com/geocomPP/sdv . Full chapter available from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274697165_Spatial_data_visualisation_with_R

Lovelace, R., Cheshire, J., 2014. Introduction to visualising spatial data in R. Comprehensive R Archive Network.

Dorman, M. (2014). Learning R for Geospatial Analysis. Packt Publishing Ltd.

Everitt, B. S., & Hothorn, T. (2015). HSAUR: A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. Retrieved from http://cran.r-project.org/package=HSAUR

Harris, R. (2012). A Short Introduction to R. social-statistics.org.

Lamigueiro, O. P. (2012). solaR: Solar Radiation and Photovoltaic Systems with R. Journal of Statistical Software, 50(9), 1–32. Retrieved from http://www.jstatsoft.org/v50/i09

Wickham, H. (2009). ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis. Springer.

Wickham, H. (2014). Tidy data. The Journal of Statistical Software, 14(5), Retrieved from http://www.jstatsoft.org/v59/i10

Wilkinson, L. (2005). The grammar of graphics. Springer.