choroplethr_wdi: Create a country-level choropleth using data from the World...

In trulia/choroplethr: Simplify the Creation of Choropleth Maps in R

Description

Create a country-level choropleth using data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (WDI).

Usage

choroplethr_wdi(code = "SP.POP.TOTL", year = 2012, title = "",
  buckets = 7, zoom = NULL)

Arguments

code	The WDI code to use.
year	The year of data to use.
title	A title for the map. If not specified, automatically generated to include WDI code and year.
buckets	The number of equally sized buckets to places the values in. A value of 1 will use a continuous scale, and a value in [2, 9] will use that many buckets.
zoom	An optional list of countries to zoom in on. Must come from the "name" column in ?country.regions.

Value

A choropleth.

References

Uses the WDI function from the WDI package by Vincent Arel-Bundock.

Examples

## Not run: 
# See http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL
choroplethr_wdi(code="SP.POP.TOTL", year=2012, title="2012 Population Estimates", buckets=1)

# See http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN
choroplethr_wdi(code="SP.DYN.LE00.IN", year=2012, title="2012 Life Expectancy Estimates")

# See http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
choroplethr_wdi(code="NY.GDP.PCAP.CD", year=2012, title="2012 Per Capita Income")

## End(Not run)

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