Laura Ellis shows how to use the usmap package in R:
Today, I’d like to share the package ‘usmap’ which enables incredibly easy and fast creation of US maps in R.
In honor of US Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’m going to make this blog Thanksgiving themed! In this tutorial, we will use the gTrendsR package to pull US Google search results on the keyword “thanksgiving” and plot the popularity by state.
Click through for that demo, as well as links to more demos on map usage.