R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics and is provided with excellent graphics and plotting capabilities. Lately I’ve been playing with R to get used at creating simple visualizations and charts, as a first step to get a quick overview when using a the dataset.

R is really powerful and with a few lines of code you can get the work done. Here I will explain how to make a thematic map (also known as choropleth map) as well as some basic charts. Here you can see the final result: