RgoogleMaps is R packages with two purposes: It provides an R interface to query the Google server for static maps and also can be used as a background image to overlay plots within R.
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printing output of google geomap as image using R
I am using googlevis package to plot a geographic map. The output I get is HTML. Is it possible to generate jpg or png output?

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Plot areas on RGoogleMaps
I have a shapefile with regions with polygons, and can successfully use PlotOnStaticMap like this:
#Map <- GetMap.bbox(bb$ #Just to show I read "Map" here
shp_0 <- rgdal::readOGR(dsn="dir", layer="TheLayer")
shp_1 <- shp_0@polygons[[i1]] # where…

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Creating a new map with getNOAA from older ggmap data
I made a map last year of survey points using Rgooglemaps in R. It was a simple map displaying points at which different surveys were conducted. Since google have updated their licence I want to re-create this map using the getNOAA function using…

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Rgooglemaps PlotOnStaticMap Not Scaling with GetMap SCALE parameter
I'm trying to plot some GPS points using Rgooglemaps and to create a plot image larger than 640x640px.
Rgooglemaps GetMap has a SCALE parameter which scales the retrieved google map by up to a factor of two.
Examples: No Scaling & Scaled by 2
Note:…

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cannot plot negative longitude values in PlotOnStaticMap in R
I have:
> df1
lon lat grp
1 0.02310676 51.39729 0
2 -0.04666115 51.40614 0
3 0.09730595 51.38398 0
4 0.02458385 51.39580 1
and want to plot it on a map.
library(RgoogleMaps)
> center
[1] 51.389486 …

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ggmap colour according to survey type
I am trying to create a map that will display all my Lat/Long data points with each survey type represented by a different colour.…

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RGooglemaps Random Geocode Error (reproducible code)
I get a random number of errors that come back as NA when I try to geocode a lot of places using rgooglemaps getGeoCode function. Can anyone tell me why? (Reproducible code below)
library(RgoogleMaps)
library(foreach)
###Replicating a large search…

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Multiple panned maps of various sections of the city with ggmap
I can achive Plotting multiple maps with ggmap which is also possible with faceting as described in Kale & Wickham (2013) R Journal paper. But I would like to plot a multiple series of maps that pan around particular, zoomed areas of the city. This…

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Setting Color of Segments in R Based on Third Variable
I'm trying to take a data frame:
lat lng active
122.536226 37.86047 green
122.536422 37.860303 green
122.536688 37.860072 red
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and create a map, using RgoogleMaps, with line segments (or lines?) that are from row 1 to row 2,…

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PlotOnStaticMap error: Error in points$Tile[, "X"] : subscript out of bounds
I have always used PlotOnStaticMap command to add points to Google Maps plot, but with this code
RangeVenetoLon<-c(10.58, 13.13)
RangeVenetoLat<-c(44.75, 46.71)
MapVeneto<-GetMap.bbox(lonR=RangeVenetoLon, latR=RangeVenetoLat, size =…

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PlotOnStaticMap (R package RgoogleMaps) doesn't work with old version
m trying to use this code in R, with package RgoogleMaps
R Version: 2.14.2
RgoogleMaps version: 1.1.9.15
I need to use these old versions, here's the code (works with newest versions)
PlotOnStaticMap(Map,lon=x,lat=y, FUN = points, pch=16,…

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Using PlotPolysOnStaticMap function in RgoogleMaps: Plotting my polygons returns colors in "holes"
As the title says I am trying to plot a polygons using the PlotPolysonStaticMap function in RgoogleMaps. My polygon is a subset from a larger dataset of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ecoregions. Since the bounds of my ecoregion confine the bounds of…
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RgoogleMaps and ggmap producing blank plot
I am trying to use the RgoogleMaps package in R. I am running R version 3.1.0 on Windows Server 2008. No matter what I try to plot, I keep getting just a blank plot. I have tried writing out to external devices such as pdf or png with no luck. Here…
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Plotting z as a color with R on a rGoogleMap
I have a function and I want to plot only x and y. z should be represented as a color. Is there a package that does the work for me ?
f = function(a,b){
dnorm(a^2+b^2)
}
x = seq(-2, 2, 0.1)
y = seq(-2, 2, 0.1)
z = outer(x, y, f)
persp(x, y,…

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RgoogleMap on Shiny /R Studio
I would like to change the map which I am using on the following app:
Right now I am working with worldHires, but I would like to use a nicer map (with all the respect), like google maps.
Trying to use RgoogleMaps, I copied the following example…

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