smartmap

smartmap is an R package for previewing spatial data as leaflet maps. It is designed for interactive use and produces nice maps with minimal typing required. In contrast to other similar packages, smartmap does not require an sf or sp object as input, but just works with normal data.frames or matrices that have longitude and latitude columns. See the package homepage for more infos.

Installation

You can install smartmap from CRAN:

install.packages("smartmap")

or get the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("s-fleck/smartmap")

Development status

smartmap is in maintenance mode since I don’t much work with spatial data anymore, so new features are unlikely to be added.

Example

library(smartmap)

# coordinate pairs without names are interpreted as longitude/latitude
smap(c(16.422524, 48.185686))

# if you supply column names, smap uses those to identify the correct columns
smap(c(LAT = 48.185686, LoNgItuDE = 16.422524))

# when supplied with an url or file system path, smap tries its best to discover
# supported spatial datasets
# Note: the naturalearthdata url doesn't work anymore and i didn't find another good new example
# smap("https://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/cultural/ne_50m_admin_0_countries.zip")

# You can call smap() on existing leaflet objects to add background tiles and
# a ruler for measuring distance
library(leaflet)
lf <- leaflet::leaflet() %>% 
  leaflet::addCircleMarkers(lng = 16.422524, lat = 48.185686)

lf
smap(lf)