Maps of states: polygons and hexagons

statesmaps

Format

A data frame of 51 states and 8 variables:

state_name: Name of the state
state_abbv: two-letter abbrevation of state
state_fips: character value of the fips code
piece: integer value enumerating different pieces of a state's area
hole: TRUE/FALSE - does the polygon describe a hole?
group: id for the corresponding polygon piece
polygon: list of data frames with polygon points
hexagon: list of data frames with hexagon points

Source

hexbin map: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/holtzy/D3-graph-gallery/master/DATA/us_states_hexgrid.geojson.json; states map from https://github.com/UrbanInstitute/urbnmapr

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(tidyr)
statesmaps %>% unnest(col=hexagon) %>%
  ggplot(aes( x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill=state_name)) +
    geom_polygon() +
    theme_void () +
    coord_map () +
    theme(legend.position="none")


statesmaps %>% unnest(col=polygon) %>%
  ggplot(aes( x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill=state_name)) +
    geom_polygon() +
    theme_void () +
    coord_map () +
    theme(legend.position="none")