README.md

In poissonconsulting/haidagwaii: Map of Haida Gwaii

haidagwaii

Introduction

haidagwaii is an R data package that provides a spatial polygon object of the archipelago of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia called haida_gwaii.

Utilisation

# load required packages
library(haidagwaii)
#> Loading required package: sp
library(broom)
library(ggplot2)

# project as BC Albers
haida_gwaii <- spTransform(haidagwaii::haida_gwaii, CRS("+init=epsg:3005"))

# convert into data frame
haida_gwaii <- broom::tidy(haida_gwaii)

# map
ggplot() +
geom_polygon(data = haida_gwaii, aes(x = long / 1000, y = lat / 1000, group = group),
               fill = alpha("black", 1/2)) +
  coord_equal() +
  scale_x_continuous("Easting (km)") +
  scale_y_continuous("Northing (km)")

Installation

To install

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("poissonconsulting/haidagwaii")

Inspiration

The spatial polygon was derived from the bcmaps R package.

The original data are available from http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/files-fichiers/gcd_000b11a_e.zip.

Absolution

Although licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.

poissonconsulting/haidagwaii documentation built on May 25, 2019, 10:24 a.m.