pacman::p_load(tmap, tidyverse, sf)In-class Exercise 3: Analytical Mapping
1 Overview
1.1 Objectives
In this in-class exercise, you will gain hands-on experience on using appropriate R methods to plot analytical maps. For the purpose of this exercise, Nigeria water point data prepared during In-class Exercise 2 will be used.
1.2 Learning Outcome
By the end of this in-class exercise, you will be able to use appropriate functions of tmap and tidyverse to perform the following tasks:
Importing geospatial data in rds format into R environment.
Creating cartographic quality choropleth maps by using appropriate tmap functions.
Creating rate map
Creating percentile map
Creating boxmap
2 Getting Started
2.1 Installing and Loading Packages
2.2 Importing Data
Importing NGA_wp.rds created in the previous in-class into R environment.
NGA_wp <- read_rds("data/rds/NGA_wp.rds")3 Basic Choropleth Mapping
3.1 Visualizing distribution of non-functional water point
Plot a choropleth map showing the distribution of non-functional water point by LGA
p1 <- tm_shape(NGA_wp) +
tm_fill("wp_functional",
n = 10,
style = "equal",
palette = "Blues") +
tm_borders(lwd = 0.1,
alpha = 1) +
tm_layout(main.title = "Distribution of functional water point by LGAs",
legend.outside = FALSE)p2 <- tm_shape(NGA_wp) +
tm_fill("total_wp",
n = 10,
style = "equal",
palette = "Blues") +
tm_borders(lwd = 0.1,
alpha = 1) +
tm_layout(main.title = "Distribution of total water point by LGAs",
legend.outside = FALSE)tmap_arrange(p2, p1, nrow = 1)
4 Choropleth Map for Rates
4.1 Deriving Proportion of Functional Water Points and Non-Functional Water Points
We will tabulate the proportion of functional water points and the proportion of non-functional water points in each LGA. In the following code chunk, mutate() from dplyr package is used to derive two fields, namely pct_functional and pct_nonfunctional.
NGA_wp <- NGA_wp %>%
mutate(pct_functional = wp_functional/total_wp) %>%
mutate(pct_nonfunctional = wp_nonfunctional/total_wp)4.2 Plotting map of Rate
Plot a choropleth map showing the distribution of percentage functional water point by LGA
tm_shape(NGA_wp) +
tm_fill("pct_functional",
n = 10,
style = "equal",
palette = "Blues",
legend.hist = TRUE) +
tm_borders(lwd = 0.1,
alpha = 1) +
tm_layout(main.title = "Rate map of functional water point by LGAs",
legend.outside = TRUE)
5 Extreme Value Maps
5.1 Percentile Map
The percentile map is a special type of quantile map with six specific categories: 0-1%,1-10%, 10-50%,50-90%,90-99%, and 99-100%. The corresponding breakpoints can be derived by means of the base R quantile command, passing an explicit vector of cumulative probabilities as c(0,.01,.1,.5,.9,.99,1). Note that the begin and endpoint need to be included.
5.1.1 Data Preparation
Step 1: Exclude records with NA by using the code chunk below.
NGA_wp <- NGA_wp %>%
drop_na()Step 2: Creating customised classification and extracting values
percent <- c(0,.01,.1,.5,.9,.99,1)
var <- NGA_wp["pct_functional"] %>%
st_set_geometry(NULL)
quantile(var[,1], percent) 0% 1% 10% 50% 90% 99% 100%
0.0000000 0.0000000 0.2169811 0.4791667 0.8611111 1.0000000 1.0000000 5.1.2 Why Writing Functions?
Writing a function has three big advantages over using copy-and-paste:
You can give a function an evocative name that makes your code easier to understand.
As requirements change, you only need to update code in one place, instead of many.
You eliminate the chance of making incidental mistakes when you copy and paste (i.e. updating a variable name in one place, but not in another).
5.1.3. Creating the get.var function
Firstly, we will write an R function as shown below to extract a variable (i.e. wp_nonfunctional) as a vector out of an sf data.frame.
arguments:
vname: variable name (as character, in quotes)
df: name of sf data frame
returns:
- v:vector with values (without a column name)
get.var <- function(vname,df) {
v <- df[vname] %>%
st_set_geometry(NULL)
v <- unname(v[,1])
return(v)
}5.1.4 A percentile mapping function
percentmap <- function(vnam, df, legtitle=NA, mtitle="Percentile Map"){
percent <- c(0,.01,.1,.5,.9,.99,1)
var <- get.var(vnam, df)
bperc <- quantile(var, percent)
tm_shape(df) +
tm_polygons() +
tm_shape(df) +
tm_fill(vnam,
title=legtitle,
breaks=bperc,
palette="Blues",
labels=c("< 1%", "1% - 10%", "10% - 50%", "50% - 90%", "90% - 99%", "> 99%")) +
tm_borders() +
tm_layout(main.title = mtitle,
title.position = c("right","bottom"))
}5.1.5 Test drive the percentile mapping function
percentmap("total_wp", NGA_wp)
Note that this is just a bare bones implementation. Additional arguments such as title, legend positioning just to name a few of them, could be passed to customise various features of the map.
5.2 Box map
In essence, a box map is an augmented quartile map, with an additional lower and upper category. When there are lower outliers, then the starting point for the breaks is the minimum value, and the second break is the lower fence. In contrast, when there are no lower outliers, then the starting point for the breaks will be the lower fence, and the second break is the minimum value (there will be no observations that fall in the interval between the lower fence and the minimum value)
ggplot(data = NGA_wp,
aes(x = "",
y = wp_nonfunctional)) +
geom_boxplot()
Displaying summary statistics on a choropleth map by using the basic principles of boxplot.
To create a box map, a custom breaks specification will be used. However, there is a complication. The break points for the box map vary depending on whether lower or upper outliers are present.
5.2.1 Creating the box breaks function
R Function that creating break points for a box map.
arguments:
v:vector with obersations
mult: multiplier for IQR (default 1.5)
returns:
- bb: vector with 7 break points compute quartile and fences
boxbreaks <- function(v,mult=1.5) {
qv <- unname(quantile(v))
iqr <- qv[4] - qv[2]
upfence <- qv[4] + mult * iqr
lofence <- qv[2] - mult * iqr
# initialize break points vector
bb <- vector(mode="numeric",length=7)
# logic for lower and upper fences
if (lofence < qv[1]) { # no lower outliers
bb[1] <- lofence
bb[2] <- floor(qv[1])
} else {
bb[2] <- lofence
bb[1] <- qv[1]
}
if (upfence > qv[5]) { # no upper outliers
bb[7] <- upfence
bb[6] <- ceiling(qv[5])
} else {
bb[6] <- upfence
bb[7] <- qv[5]
}
bb[3:5] <- qv[2:4]
return(bb)
}5.2.2 Creating the get.var function
The code chunk below is an R function to extract a variable as a vector out of an sf data frame.
arguments:
vname: varaible name (as character, in quotes)
df: name of sf data frame
returns:
- v:vector with values (without a column name)
get.var <- function(vname,df) {
v <- df[vname] %>% st_set_geometry(NULL)
v <- unname(v[,1])
return(v)
}5.2.3. Test drive the newly created function
var <- get.var("wp_nonfunctional", NGA_wp)
boxbreaks(var)[1] -56.5 0.0 14.0 34.0 61.0 131.5 278.05.2.4 Boxmap function
The code chunk below is an R function to create a box map. - arguments: - vnam: variable name (as character, in quotes) - df: simple features polygon layer - legtitle: legend title - mtitle: map title - mult: multiplier for IQR - returns: - a tmap-element (plots a map)
boxmap <- function(vnam, df,
legtitle=NA,
mtitle="Box Map",
mult=1.5){
var <- get.var(vnam,df)
bb <- boxbreaks(var)
tm_shape(df) +
tm_polygons() +
tm_shape(df) +
tm_fill(vnam,title=legtitle,
breaks=bb,
palette="Blues",
labels = c("lower outlier",
"< 25%",
"25% - 50%",
"50% - 75%",
"> 75%",
"upper outlier")) +
tm_borders() +
tm_layout(main.title = mtitle,
title.position = c("left",
"top"))
}tmap_mode("plot")tmap mode set to plottingboxmap("wp_nonfunctional", NGA_wp)Warning: Breaks contains positive and negative values. Better is to use
diverging scale instead, or set auto.palette.mapping to FALSE.
5.2.5 Recode zero
The code chunk below is used to recode LGAs with zero total water point into NA.
NGA_wp <- NGA_wp %>%
mutate(wp_functional = na_if(
total_wp, total_wp < 0))