Do you have some data with geolocation information that you want to map? You may not think of R when you’re looking for a GIS platform, but new packages and standards have helped make the R ...

R has some excellent mapping options. There is the leaflet R package, which I use when I want to do a lot of customization. There is tmap, which I like for its nice balance between power and ease of ...

See how to use the R leaflet package to color-code a map by winner, loser, and margin of victory. If you’re mapping election results of, say, the US presidential election by state, it can make sense ...