Description
Smartly Create Maps from R Objects.
Description
Preview spatial data as 'leaflet' maps with minimal effort. smartmap is optimized for interactive use and distinguishes itself from similar packages because it does not need real spatial ('sp' or 'sf') objects an input; instead, it tries to automatically coerce everything that looks like spatial data to sf objects or leaflet maps. It - for example - supports direct mapping of: a vector containing a single coordinate pair, a two column matrix, a data.frame with longitude and latitude columns, or the path or URL to a (possibly compressed) 'shapefile'.
README.md
smartmap
smartmap is a package for previewing spatial data as leaflet maps in R. It is designed primarily for interactive use and produces nice maps with minimal setup required. In contrast to other similar packages, smartmap does not require an sf
or sp
object as input, but just works with normal data.frames
or matrices
that have longitude and latitude columns. See the function reference for more info.
Installation
And the development version from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("s-fleck/smartmap")
Example
library(smartmap)
# coordinate pairs without names are interpreted as longitude/latitude
smap(c(16.422524, 48.185686))
# if you supply column names, smap uses those to identify the correct columns
smap(c(LAT = 48.185686, LoNgItuDE = 16.422524))
# when supplied with an url or file system path, smap tries its best to discover
# supported spatial datasets
smap("https://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/cultural/ne_50m_admin_0_countries.zip")
# You can call smap() on existing leaflet objects to add background tiles and
# a ruler for measuring distance
library(leaflet)
lf <- leaflet::leaflet() %>%
leaflet::addCircleMarkers(lng = 16.422524, lat = 48.185686)
lf
smap(lf)