Introduction

Welcome! This document provides a brief introduction to maps and how to think about creating them in the R programming language. It supports an online workshop, but won’t be here forever, so you may want to make your own notes and copy the code as we go.

You do not need to know how to code for this workshop, but it is assumed that you can. If you feel like trying to code afterwards and get into trouble then you can send questions to .

To use this document, you can click on the table of contents to the left to jump to sections. You’ll notice buttons dotted around the document labelled Code. Clicking on these will reveal the code used to create example maps.

We have a few learning objectives for today. By the end of the workshop attendees will have seen:

The benefits of creating maps using a programming language.

Examples of different maps generated in R.

How to combine multiple datasets into a single map.