Make Maps in R with Geovizr

I recently covered the Geoviz library, a thematic-mapping JavaScript library based on D3. For those who prefer to do their data visualisation in R, there’s Geovizr, so you can make maps in R.

geovizr is an R package for thematic mapping. It’s an R wrapper around the geoviz JavaScript library, itself based on the d3.js ecosystem. Like the original JavaScript library, the package can be used to create a wide range of interactive, zoomable vector maps, taking advantage of d3’s many features: proportional symbols, pictograms, typologies, choropleth maps, spikes, tiles, Dorling cartograms, etc. It can also be used to create pretty static vectorial maps in SVG format, suitable for editorial cartography.