Transcription of rworldmap: A New R package for Mapping Global Data
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rworldmap: A New R package for Mapping Global Data
CONTRIBUTEDRESEARCHARTICLES35rworldmap: A New R package forMapping Global Databy Andy SouthAbstractrworldmapis a relatively new pack-age available on CRAN for the Mapping and vi-sualisation of Global data. The vision is to makethe display of Global data easier, to facilitate un-derstanding and communication. The initial fo-cus is on data referenced by country or grid dueto the frequency of use of such data in Global as-sessments. Tools to link data referenced by coun-try (either name or code) to a map, and then todisplay the map are provided as are functions tomap Global gridded data. Country and griddedfunctions accept the same arguments to specifythe nature of categories and colour and how leg-ends are formatted.
rworldmap data inputs rworldmap consists of tools to visualise global data and focuses on two types of data. Firstly, data that are referenced by country codes or names and sec-ondly, data that are referenced on a grid. Country data There is a wealth of global country level data avail-able on the internet including UN population data,
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