I often find myself doing some analysis in R and then want to make a quick map. The standard plot () function does a reasonable job quickly, but I quickly discover that I need to go to ggplot2 when I want to do something that looks beautiful or has more complex symbolic requirements. Ggplot2 is great, but it is sometimes cumbersome to convert SpatialPolygonsDataFrame to the format needed by Ggplot2. Ggplot2 can also be slow when working with large maps that require specific forecasts.
It seems to me that I can use Mapnik to create features directly from R, but after exhausting my Google-fu, I cannot find any evidence of bindings. Instead of assuming that such a thing does not exist, I thought that I would check here to find out if anyone knows about the R-Mapnik binding.
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