mapr

Helper for making maps of species occurrence data, including for:

spocc
rgbif
and some sp classes

This package has utilities for making maps with:

base R
ggplot2
ggplot2 with map layers - via ggmap pkg
Leaflet - via leaflet pkg
GitHub Gists - via gistr package

Installation

Install mapr

install.packages("mapr", dependencies = TRUE)

Or the development version from GitHub

devtools::install_github("ropensci/mapr")

library("mapr")
library("spocc")

Make maps

Leaflet

spp <- c('Danaus plexippus', 'Accipiter striatus', 'Pinus contorta')
dat <- occ(query = spp, from = 'gbif', has_coords = TRUE, limit = 50)
map_leaflet(dat)

leafletmap

Github gist

dat <- fixnames(dat)
map_gist(dat, color = c("#976AAE","#6B944D","#BD5945"))