This is a reproducible paper, that tries to introduce the reader on friendly "hello world Gis", using some R packages, who I'd like to highlight is from Robinlovelace's studies who could be found at https://github.com/Robinlovelace?tab=repositories. Thanks Robin.

# The order is important here, take care.

#1) Creating a vector with the name of the basic packages to install
pkgs <- c("devtools", "shiny", "rgdal",
          "rgeos", "ggmap", "raster")


#2) Install these packages over the vector
install.packages(pkgs, repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")

#3) Import devtools library
library(devtools)

#4) Creating a second vector with the name of robinlovelace's packages. 
#Thanks Robin :)
gh_pkgs <- c("rstudio/leaflet", 
             "robinlovelace/stplanr") 


#5) Install them
install_github(gh_pkgs)


#6) Attach them to library
lapply(c(pkgs, "leaflet", "stplanr"), 
       library, character.only = T)

downloadLink <- paste0("http://www.eurogeographics.org",
                       "/sites/default/files/",
                       "EBM_v91_sample_shape.zip")

• See the correlation between cache.vars='downloadLink' and the variable name on the snippet Above.

download.file(downloadLink, paste0(getwd(),"/data.zip"))

unzip("data.zip")

lnd <- shapefile("./EBM_v91_sample/StatisticalUnits/NUTS_3.shp")

print(class(lnd)) 

## [1] "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"
## attr(,"package")
## [1] "sp"

locationNUIG <- geocode("NUIG",sensor = TRUE)

library(leaflet)
mp <- leaflet(data=locationNUIG)
mp <- addTiles(map = mp)
mp <- addCircles(mp, radius = 40)
mp <- addPopups(mp,popup = "That's NUIG :)")
mp

• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database
• http://census.cso.ie/censusasp/saps/boundaries/ED_SA%20Disclaimer1.htm
• http://census.cso.ie/censusasp/saps/boundaries/Census2011_NUTS3_generalised20m.zip
• http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroboundarymap
• http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-leaflet-package-for-online-mapping-in-r/
• https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/
• https://github.com/Robinlovelace?tab=repositories

That's can be basic, rudimentary but need to be shared, because is very fun! Thank you :)