Africa Map

Authors

[Editor] Hu Zheng;

[Contributors]

Note

Hiplot website

This page is the tutorial for source code version of the Hiplot Africa Map plugin. You can also use the Hiplot website to achieve no code ploting. For more information please see the following link:

https://hiplot.cn/basic/map-africa?lang=en

Setup

  • System Requirements: Cross-platform (Linux/MacOS/Windows)

  • Programming language: R

  • Dependent packages: ggplot2; RColorBrewer

# Install packages
if (!requireNamespace("ggplot2", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("ggplot2")
}
if (!requireNamespace("RColorBrewer", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("RColorBrewer")
}

# Load packages
library(ggplot2)
library(RColorBrewer)

Data Preparation

# Load data
data <- read.delim("files/Hiplot/096-map-africa-data.txt", header = T)
dt_map <- readRDS("files/Hiplot/afr.rds")

# Convert data structure
dt_map$Value <- data$value[match(dt_map$ADM0_NAME, data$region)]

# View data
head(data)
        region value
1        Sudan   258
2       Angola   911
3        Benin   318
4     Botswana   759
5 Burkina Faso   983
6     Cameroon   618

Visualization

# Africa Map
p <- ggplot(dt_map) +
  geom_polygon(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = Value),
               alpha = 0.9, size = 0.5) +
  geom_path(aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group), color = "black", size = 0.2) +
  scale_fill_gradientn(
    colours = colorRampPalette(rev(brewer.pal(11,"RdYlBu")))(500),
    breaks = seq(9, 985, 139),
    name = "Color Key",
    guide = guide_legend(
      direction = "vertical", keyheight = unit(1, units = "mm"),
      keywidth = unit(8, units = "mm"),
      title.position = "top", title.hjust = 0.5, label.hjust = 0.5,
      nrow = 1, byrow = T, reverse = F, label.position = "bottom")) +
  theme(text = element_text(color = "#3A3F4A"),
        axis.text = element_blank(),
        axis.ticks = element_blank(),
        panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
        panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
        legend.position = "top",
        legend.text = element_text(size = 4 * 1.5, color = "black"),
        legend.title = element_text(size = 5 * 1.5, color = "black"),
        plot.title = element_text(
          face = "bold", size = 5 * 1.5, hjust = 0.5, 
          margin = margin(t = 4, b = 5), color = "black"),
        plot.background = element_rect(fill = "#FFFFFF", color = "#FFFFFF"),
        panel.background = element_rect(fill = "#FFFFFF", color = NA),
        legend.background = element_rect(fill = "#FFFFFF", color = NA),
        plot.margin = unit(c(1.5, 1.5, 1.5, 1.5), "cm")) +
  labs(x = NULL, y = NULL, title = "Africa Map")

p
FigureΒ 1: Africa Map