daranzolin/quickglobe

:earth_americas: View Country Data via a 3D, D3, Globe :earth_africa:

quickglobe

Spin's the name, and rocking round the globe's the game!

This package was mostly an excuse to sync up some #rstats, GIS, and D3 tricks.

I really wanted to name this package spintheglobe in homage to National Geographic's Really Wild Animals docs, but the internet has a severe deficit of Spin content.

Installation

quickglobe is not on CRAN, but uou can install the development version from GitHub via:

devtools::install_packages_github("daranzolin/quickglobe")

Spinning the Globe

quickglobe renders an interactive, 3D globe. It will attempt to match a country 'identifier' (e.g. name, iso code) within the function, so there's no need to worry about geometry or other spatial concerns. Your identifier strings, however, have to be relatively clean.

library(gapminder)
library(dplyr)
library(quickglobe)

gapminder %>% 
  filter(year == 2002) %>%
  quickglobe(country, gdpPercap, title = "GDP Per Capita")

Styling the Globe

Use different palettes, adjust the title font family, choose the number of legend cells, and format the legend ticks in qg_style

quickglobe's Issues

quickglobe doesn't work in Rmarkdown :(

Error:

Could not determine mime type for `/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/library/quickglobe/htmlwidgets/lib/shapes/world110m.json'
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 63
Execution halted

Improve Readme

Hi David,
tried your package and it looks great!
Compared to your code in the readme I had to change:
devtools::install_github("daranzolin/quickglobe")
and add
library(tidyverse)
in order to make it work from a clean R Skript.
Maybe you want to update this for future new users.
Cheers! Jens