I finally got around to updating usmap to version 0.2.0. This version adds the crucial feature of adding data to your maps so that you can create colorful choropleths. This is done by using the map_with_data function to retrieve a data frame. Alternatively, the plot_usmap function has been updated to...
(continue reading) I just released my first R package to CRAN. It’s called usmap and can help you create nice US maps for visualizing countrywide data. Normally, plotting US maps in R is awkward because Alaska and Hawaii are far from the mainland US. So you either make the rest of the...
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