R_Code_Ref-GEO_PROCESS

Include the most common geo-processing use cases in R.

• Data:
  • The New York State County Shape File was downloaded here
  • 2017 - 5 year estimate for Medium Household Income. Downloaded from American Community Survey (ACS) here
• R libraries:
  • sf: geo process tools in R
  • tidyverse: data manipulation tools (dplyr)
  • leaflet: plot maps in R

Task 1. Custermized a shape file (by dissolving s selected regions into one polygon)

Below is a New York State County Map Downloaded from here.

Our Task is to make the New York City part of 5 regions to "dissolve" to become one region called "NYC" :

Before: After:

Task 2. Create a leaftlet Map

Our Task is to create a map showing the income level by county:

To view the full interactive map: download the map located in: img/map_v1.html