Astonishingly easy mapping in R with mapview

R has some excellent mapping options. There is the leaflet R package, which I use when I want to do a lot of customization. There is tmap, which I like for its nice balance between power and ease of use. And recently I’ve started also using mapview.

mapview’s raison d’être is exploratory visualization — more specifically, generating useful default maps with very little code. As little code as:

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