I am trying to map lat/lon locations in the Arctic/subarctic region using ggplot2, and colour them by type.
Here are the packages I'm using:
library(ggplot2)
library(rgdal)
library(ggmap)
library(sp)
library(dplyr)
library(ggspatial) #To use geom_sf to add shapefiles
Here is an example of my data:
dat <- data.frame(
"Lat" = c("70.5","74.5","58.5","60.5"),
"Lon" = c("-21.5","19.0","-161.5","-147.5"),
"Type"=c("A","B","A","B")
)
dat
I created a shapefile for the Arctic circle, found here: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f710b74427a14a1d804e90fbf94baed4
ArcticCircle <- sf::st_read("C:/.../LCC_AC.shp")
I am trying to map this in ggplot2, but I can't find a way to add a basemap with the Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
I know you can use coord_sf() to specify projection and boundaries, but I can't find a code for a conic projection.
p <- ggplot()+
geom_point(data = dat, aes(x = Lon, y = Lat, colour = Type))+
geom_sf(data = ArcticCircle, linetype = "dashed", aes())+
xlab("Longitude")+
ylab("Latitude")+
p
My map boundary would preferably be a circle around the Arctic circle at about 45 degrees latitude. If making a circle boundary isn't possible, a rectangle around that latitude it would work as well.
I am relatively new to R, so any help would be appreciated!