Statistics, Department of
The R Journal
Date of this Version
6-2013
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (June 2013) 5(1); Editor: Hadley Wickham
Abstract
In spatial statistics the ability to visualize data and models super imposed with their basic social landmarks and geographic context is in valuable. ggmap is a new tool which enables such visualization by combining the spatial information of static maps from Google Maps,Open Street Map, Stamen Maps or Cloud Made Maps with the layered grammar of graphics implementation of ggplot2. In addition, several new utility functions are introduced which allow the user to access the Google Geocoding, Distance Matrix, and Directions APIs. The result is an easy, consistent and modular frame work for spatial graphics with several convenient tools for spatial data analysis.
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Comments
Copyright 2013, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported