The R Journal: article published in 2011, volume 3:1

rworldmap : a new R package for mapping global data
Andy South , The R Journal (2011) 3:1, pages 35-43.

Abstract rworldmap is a new package available on CRAN for mapping and visualisation of global data. The vision is to make the display of global data easier, to facilitate understanding and com munication. The initial concentration is on data referenced by country or grid due to the frequency of use of such data in global assessments. Tools to link data referenced by country (either name or code) to a map, and then to display the map are provided as are functions to map global gridded data. Country and gridded functions accept the same arguments to specify the nature of categories and colour and how legends are formatted. This package builds on the functionality of existing packages, particularly sp, maptools and fields. Example code is provided to produce maps, to link with the packages classInt, RColorBrewer and ncdf, and to plot examples of publicly available country and gridded data.

@article{RJ-2011-006,
  author = {Andy South},
  title = {{rworldmap : a new R package for mapping global data}},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {{The R Journal}},
  doi = {10.32614/RJ-2011-006},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2011-006},
  pages = {35--43},
  volume = {3},
  number = {1}
}