Maps: what do we want to do on maps? about spocc HOT 10 CLOSED

I'd say we skip base for time being.
I can take on ggplot.

re vectorization, here's an idea. I don't think it's worthwhile to create a many class. Why don't we just have a function similar to compact that can take many occdat objects and squash them to be passed on to the mapping functions?

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Sweet, thanks for taking ggplot

Good idea. I do have occ_todf to squash data from a single output of occ that can have data from many sources (gbif, inaturalist, etc.) to a single data.frame, but not from many outputs of occ. Will make a new fxn.

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@karthik and I talked about a general purpose maps library for R for interactive maps. So eventually map fxns can be broken off and imported via whatever the pkg name will be

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Added base maps in commit 149807d

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We can also now do Leaflet maps quite easily thanks to the leafletR package. See this function in ecoengine.

This can be easily generalized the occ class. I think with that we could finish up all the remaining loose ends and get this package to CRAN. Build more advanced features for the next round.

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Right, but the maprcharts function uses leaflet. But if you'd rather use leafletR thats fine, but we can more easily get help and modify things using rCharts perhaps

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TRUE. Only downside with using maprcharts is that it requires a non-CRAN dependency and we don't have an ETA on that. rCharts also has many other dependencies of its own. We could use leafletR (ultimately the same end result) for now, which would allow us to get a first version to CRAN fairly soon.

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Okay, sounds good

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@karthik leafletR isn't working for me. You? Seems like the geojson is not included in the output html file, but rather refers to a locally stored file without the correct path to that file. Seems like you should be able to just source the data from a different file, but not working on my machine at least, even with the correct path to the geojson file.

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Closing for now, opened a new issue #37 to add back in an rCharts function once it's on CRAN.

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