Cartography with R

Create reproducible maps with R

Author

Affiliation

Timothée Giraud

Center for Spatial Analysis and Geovizualization

Preamble

Process spatial data and create reproducible maps with R.

Topics covered:

• The R Spatial ecosystem
• Spatial data manipulation
• Thematic cartography and graphic semiology
• Maps with R
• Map layout and map export

How to use the manual
Datasets used in this document are stored in an RStudio project. You need to download it and unzip it on your machine. You will then be able to test all data processing proposed in this document using the geodata project.
Download project

Contribution and feedback
You can send your comments and suggestions by posting an issue on the GitHub repository of this document.

Context
This document is an extract and a translation of Cartographie avec R (2024a) and Géomatique avec R (2024b). It is the basis for a one-day course on geomatics and cartography with R.

See aslo

Lovelace, Nowosad, and Muenchow (2025)

Pebesma and Bivand (2023)

Hijmans (2025)

Giraud, Timothée, and Hugues Pecout. 2024a. “Cartographie avec R.” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5905734.

———. 2024b. “Géomatique avec R.” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5906212.

Hijmans, Robert J. 2025. Spatial Data Science with R and "terra". https://rspatial.org.

Lovelace, Robin, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Muenchow. 2025. Geocomputation with R. Chapman; Hall/CRC. https://r.geocompx.org/.

Pebesma, Edzer, and Roger Bivand. 2023. Spatial Data Science: With applications in R. Chapman; Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429459016.