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Using ggmap after July 2018
ggmap
is an awesome package for creating maps with ggplot2
. If you’ve seen a nice looking map built with ggplot2
I can almost guarantee you that it uses ggmap
to look that good. The ggmap
package is used to obtain base maps from the APIs of a number of online mapping tools, the one we care about here is the base maps from Google Maps (because they’re very good).
Recipes for learning
In this blogpost I introduce one of my favourite datasets, a treasure trove of 57,000+ recipes scraped from recipe websites for a fascinating research paper (DOI: 10.1038/srep00196) comparing how different cuisines choose ingredients. I first used this dataset in May 2015 to learn how to use R and continue to use it to test my understanding of new techniques and analysis.
Where’s the love for htmlwidgets?
If you’ve never heard of them, htmlwidgets
are an amazing part of the work that RStudio (plus ramnathv and timelyportfolio) have undertaken to make R a beautiful tool for doing data science and communicating things about your data. Using leaflet, plotly, highcharter and more it’s possible to create rich interactive charts, maps and other visualisations directly from R without having to learn JavaScript