EDIT 2019: hexmapr has been renamed to geogrid. Also calculate_cell_size() has been deprecated to become calculate_grid() Today, David Robinson (@drob) tweeted about his unvotes package which contains the history of the United Nations General Assembly voting :
Check out my unvotes package, with history of United Nations General Assembly voting: https://t.co/VDQ3kGMQtf
— David Robinson (@drob) January 9, 2018 To me, this dataset just screams to be mapped. Especially on a hex map, as I have been looking for an excuse to try Joseph Bailey’s (@iammrbailey) hexmapr package since I saw this tweet two months ago:
![](https://old.simoncoulombe.com/post/2018-01-09-unvotes_hexgrid_files/convert_map_to_hex_grid-1.png)