DSCA_leaflet_mapping_in_r

Introduction to leaflet mapping in R

Version 1

Course Duration

2 Hours

Course Summary

This course introduces students to the sf package and building interactive maps in R using leaflet.

Course Objective

Students will become familiar with how to build a map in R using leaflet and how to customise it.

Lead Developer

Laurie Baker

Course Reviewer(s)

Richard Leyshon

Intended Audience

Students familiar with R wishing to advance their data visualisation skills.

Learning Objective Detail

At the end of the course, participants will:-

• Be familiar with the basic types of spatial data and how to check the coordinate reference system using the sf package in R.
• Learn how to build a static map using sf and ggplot2 using geom_sf.
• Learn how to build a chloropleth map in R using the javascript library leaflet.
• Be familiar with how to customise a plot by changing the background tile, polygon colours and fill and adding pop up labels.

Course Type

• Online learning - Not Available
• Independent learning - Not Available
• Face to face - Available

Skill Level

Intermediate

Pre requisite summary

Students should have completed the course Introduction to R. The students will need a recent version of R and RStudio and the packages tidyverse, gapminder, and leaflet.

Order of material list

1. Access the slides using this link
2. Download the tutorial using this link

College of the Atlantic Training Materials

1. Access the slides using this link
2. Access the tutorial using this link

Acknowledgements

The slide formatting comes from gadenbuie’s gentle introduction to ggplot2.

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