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mapmisc (version 2.1.3)

Utilities for Producing Maps

Description

Provides a minimal, light-weight set of tools for producing nice looking maps in R, with support for map projections. See Brown (2016) .

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install.packages('mapmisc')

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Version

2.1.3

License

GPL

Maintainer

Patrick Brown

Last Published

February 25th, 2026

Functions in mapmisc (2.1.3)

tpeqd

Two point equidistant and tilted perspective projections
worldMap

Country boundaries
crsMerc

Some coordinate reference systems and bounding boxes
col2html

Convert colours to HTML hex
GNcities

Retrieve city names and locations
geocode

Georeferencing with Google
legendTable

Table for colour scales
legendBreaks

Legends for colour scale
persistentCache

Set a persistent cache
map.new

Start a new map
colourScale

Create colour scales
gridlinesWrap

Adds long-lat grid for projected data
tonerToTrans

Convert RGB maps to semi-transparent
wrapPoly

Reproject polygons with wrapping
modis

MODIS tiles and projection
scaleBar

Scale bar and inset map
omerc

Oblique Mercator, Cylindrical, and Mollweide projections
openmap

Download map tiles
netherlands

Data from the Netherlands