How I make Eurostat maps with R

If you ever wondered how to make pretty choropleth maps of Europe, are in the right place for a good time! This tutorial walks you through the process of loading Eurostat data into R and making an effective map of GDP per capita in Europe.

0:00 Intro
1:46 Eurostat website
6:42 Load packages
7:32 Load NUTS2 shapefile
8:54 NUTS2 map
10:07 NUTS 2 data
10:45 Countries shapefile
11:48 Filter countries
12:52 Eurostat map
13:04 Non-Eurostat map
13:22 Find indicator
15:07 Fetch table
16:46 Long to wide format
18:41 Fill NAs and join
19:51 Legend breaks
23:33 Bounding box
24:54 Color palette
26:30 Mapping
36:31 Final map
37:03 Closing

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