The amazing Rmaps makes maps even more data scientisty (or sexy 😉 ) than before by adding incredible javascript like interactivity to people who can just type (or copy and paste)
a few lines of R code
A great analysis of Mexico
http://rcharts.io/viewer/?9223554#.Uw4hOPmSySp
Now if could only persuade the very busy creator of the package to honor his promise of sending the interview answers 🙂 !!
Also see-
https://decisionstats.com/2013/08/19/the-wonderful-ggmap-package-for-spatial-analysis-in-r-rstats/
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