Every day a school day when creating custom R packages!
The fun thing about creating documentation for different clients’ dataviz design packages is that they all have different needs. Today, I’m making maps and a documentation how-to about maps, because… the client makes maps and needs to see how to apply the colours we’ve created to them! Tomorrow, it will be a swimmer plot for a different client, which might prove a good excuse to play around with ggplot’s gradients…
Anyway, for today, {giscoR}, projections, geom_sf() and the weird and wonderful world of freely available mapping data (with as little political commentary as possible), here I come!
Working through tutorials on how to do something I’m less familiar with is always a good reminder not to take things for granted in the instructions I provide to others. Humbling, but also a great way of sharpening those tutorial-writing skills!
This is turning into one of those “maybe this should be a blog post…” pieces of documentation, as I’m adding in a few things about sorting out the awkward background size restrictions we get with a fixed coordinate system… Might as well share the tricks!