README.md

In niklaas/geomhurricane:

geomhurricane

The goal of geomhurricane is to provide a geom for ggplot2 that plots wind roses (for an example see Wikipedia). It provides a solution to the final exam of a Coursera course.

There is a vignette that shortly describes how to use geom_hurricane and provides an answer to the exam.

Possible improvements

• [ ] Support units
  • At this stage, unit conversion from nautical miles to meters (needed for geosphere::destPoint) is hard coded. Wind speeds are provided in knots and the legend of the plot is edited manually to reflect that.
  • Unit nautical_mile and knot already exist and are usable with package units. But ggplot2 doesn't support scales of type units in its base implementation.
  • Package ggforce enhances ggplot2 to support units but I haven't figured out how to import this feature into this package yet.
• [ ] Plotting multiple storms (see TODOs in R/geom_hurricane)
  • [ ] same storm, different date-times
  • [ ] different storms, different date_times
• [ ] Plotting multiple storms (see TODOs in R/geom_hurricane)
  • [ ] same storm, different date-times
  • [ ] different storms, different date_times

niklaas/geomhurricane documentation built on May 29, 2019, 7:18 a.m.