Publish an interactive map as a GitHub gist

There are two ways to authorize to work with your GitHub account:

• PAT - Generate a personal access token (PAT) at https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use and record it in the GITHUB_PAT envar in your .Renviron file.

• Interactive - Interactively login into your GitHub account and authorise with OAuth.

Using the PAT method is recommended.

Using the gist_auth() function you can authenticate separately first, or if you're not authenticated, this function will run internally with each function call. If you have a PAT, that will be used, if not, OAuth will be used.

Usage

map_gist(
  input,
  lat = "lat",
  lon = "long",
  geometry = "point",
  group = NULL,
  type = "FeatureCollection",
  file = "myfile.geojson",
  description = "",
  public = TRUE,
  browse = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

input

Input object

lat

Name of latitude variable

lon

Name of longitude variable

geometry

(character) Are polygons in the object

group

(character) A grouping variable to perform grouping for polygons - doesn't apply for points

type

(character) One of FeatureCollection or GeometryCollection

file

File name to use to put up as the gist file

description

Description for the GitHub gist, or leave to default (=no description)

public

(logical) Want gist to be public or not? Default: TRUE

browse

If TRUE (default) the map opens in your default browser.

...

Further arguments passed on to httr::POST

Examples

if (FALSE) {
if (!identical(Sys.getenv("GITHUB_PAT"), "")) {

  # From file
  file <- "myfile.geojson"
  geojson_write(us_cities[1:20, ], lat = "lat", lon = "long", file = file)
  map_gist(file = as.location(file))

  # From SpatialPoints class
  library("sp")
  x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  y <- c(3, 2, 5, 1, 4)
  s <- SpatialPoints(cbind(x, y))
  map_gist(s)

  # from SpatialPointsDataFrame class
  x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
  y <- c(3, 2, 5, 1, 4)
  s <- SpatialPointsDataFrame(cbind(x, y), mtcars[1:5, ])
  map_gist(s)

  # from SpatialPolygons class
  poly1 <- Polygons(list(Polygon(cbind(
    c(-100, -90, -85, -100),
    c(40, 50, 45, 40)
  ))), "1")
  poly2 <- Polygons(list(Polygon(cbind(
    c(-90, -80, -75, -90),
    c(30, 40, 35, 30)
  ))), "2")
  sp_poly <- SpatialPolygons(list(poly1, poly2), 1:2)
  map_gist(sp_poly)

  # From SpatialPolygonsDataFrame class
  sp_polydf <- as(sp_poly, "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame")
  map_gist(sp_poly)

  # From SpatialLines class
  c1 <- cbind(c(1, 2, 3), c(3, 2, 2))
  c2 <- cbind(c1[, 1] + .05, c1[, 2] + .05)
  c3 <- cbind(c(1, 2, 3), c(1, 1.5, 1))
  L1 <- Line(c1)
  L2 <- Line(c2)
  L3 <- Line(c3)
  Ls1 <- Lines(list(L1), ID = "a")
  Ls2 <- Lines(list(L2, L3), ID = "b")
  sl1 <- SpatialLines(list(Ls1))
  sl12 <- SpatialLines(list(Ls1, Ls2))
  map_gist(sl1)

  # From SpatialLinesDataFrame class
  dat <- data.frame(
    X = c("Blue", "Green"),
    Y = c("Train", "Plane"),
    Z = c("Road", "River"), row.names = c("a", "b")
  )
  sldf <- SpatialLinesDataFrame(sl12, dat)
  map_gist(sldf)

  # From SpatialGrid
  x <- GridTopology(c(0, 0), c(1, 1), c(5, 5))
  y <- SpatialGrid(x)
  map_gist(y)

  # From SpatialGridDataFrame
  sgdim <- c(3, 4)
  sg <- SpatialGrid(GridTopology(rep(0, 2), rep(10, 2), sgdim))
  sgdf <- SpatialGridDataFrame(sg, data.frame(val = 1:12))
  map_gist(sgdf)

  # from data.frame
  ## to points
  map_gist(us_cities)

  ## to polygons
  head(states)
  map_gist(states[1:351, ], lat = "lat", lon = "long", geometry = "polygon", group = "group")

  ## From a list
  mylist <- list(
    list(lat = 30, long = 120, marker = "red"),
    list(lat = 30, long = 130, marker = "blue")
  )
  map_gist(mylist, lat = "lat", lon = "long")

  # From a numeric vector
  ## of length 2 to a point
  vec <- c(-99.74, 32.45)
  map_gist(vec)

  ## this requires numeric class input, so inputting a list will dispatch on the list method
  poly <- c(
    c(-114.345703125, 39.436192999314095),
    c(-114.345703125, 43.45291889355468),
    c(-106.61132812499999, 43.45291889355468),
    c(-106.61132812499999, 39.436192999314095),
    c(-114.345703125, 39.436192999314095)
  )
  map_gist(poly, geometry = "polygon")

  # From a json object
  (x <- geojson_json(c(-99.74, 32.45)))
  map_gist(x)
  ## another example
  map_gist(geojson_json(us_cities[1:10, ], lat = "lat", lon = "long"))

  # From a geo_list object
  (res <- geojson_list(us_cities[1:2, ], lat = "lat", lon = "long"))
  map_gist(res)

  # From SpatialPixels
  pixels <- suppressWarnings(SpatialPixels(SpatialPoints(us_cities[c("long", "lat")])))
  summary(pixels)
  map_gist(pixels)

  # From SpatialPixelsDataFrame
  pixelsdf <- suppressWarnings(
    SpatialPixelsDataFrame(points = canada_cities[c("long", "lat")], data = canada_cities)
  )
  map_gist(pixelsdf)

}
}