Skill: Germany Map (R)

Category

Hiplot

When to Use

Create a Germany Map using R with the Hiplot platform's approach. Suitable for biomedical data visualization with publication-quality output.

Required R Packages

• RColorBrewer
• data.table
• ggplot2
• jsonlite

Minimal Reproducible Code

# Load packages
library(RColorBrewer)
library(data.table)
library(ggplot2)
library(jsonlite)

# Prepare data
# Load data
data <- data.table::fread(jsonlite::read_json("https://hiplot.cn/ui/basic/map-germany/data.json")$exampleData$textarea[[1]])
data <- as.data.frame(data)
dt_map <- readRDS(url("https://download.hiplot.cn/ui/basic/map-germany/germany.rds"))

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

# View data
head(data)

# Create visualization
# Germany 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) +
  coord_fixed() +
  scale_fill_gradientn(
    colours = colorRampPalette(rev(brewer.pal(11,"RdYlBu")))(500),
    breaks = seq(min(data$value), max(data$value), 
                 round((max(data$value)-min(data$value))/7)),
    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")) +
# ... (see full tutorial for more)

Key Parameters

• x: Maps long to the x aesthetic
• y: Maps lat to the y aesthetic
• group: Maps group to the group aesthetic
• fill: Maps Value to the fill aesthetic
• alpha: Controls transparency (0 = fully transparent, 1 = opaque)
• width: Controls element width
• position: Position adjustment (identity, dodge, stack, fill)

Tips

• Customize color scales with scale_fill_manual() or scale_color_brewer()
• Adjust text size with theme(text = element_text(size = 14)) for presentations
• See the full tutorial for additional customization options and advanced examples

Full Tutorial

https://openbiox.github.io/Bizard/Hiplot/107-map-germany.html