LibGuides: R: Mapping and Geospatial: Preparing Data and Joining More Data

Preparing data

tmaptools
This package offers a set of handy tool functions for reading and processing spatial data. The
aim of these functions is to supply the workflow to create thematic maps. The visualization of thematic maps can be done with the tmap package
join() functions from Package 'dplyr'
Perform attribute joins, See dplyr documentation under mutate-joins, filter-joins, and nest_join for a description of 7 variations (left_join, etc.) as well as arguments to use.
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Seven varations: inner_join(), left_join(), right_join(), full_join(), semi_join(), anti_join(), and nest_join().
Great R packages for data import, wrangling and visualization
A big long list of useful packages.
Mapping in R just got a whole lot easier
Extolling the virtues of the Simple Features data structure using R's sf package and the easy of joining data using this framework.