Introduction

This is more complicated example showing how css() aesthetic mapping may be used

Styling SVG with CSS Aesthetics (Example 3)

This world map SVG has CSS classes corresponding to the countries e.g. the CSS selector “.Canada” will select all elements having class = "Canada" in the SVG.

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# World map from: https://simplemaps.com/resources/svg-world
# Slightly modified to have a large <rect> background element
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map_svg <- paste(readLines("svg/world-bg.svg"), collapse = "\n")

grid::grid.draw( svg_to_rasterGrob(map_svg) )

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# Dummy data about Canada and Australia
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N <- 10
value_df <-  data.frame(
  country = rep(c("Canada", 'Australia'), each = N),
  value   = c(rnorm(N, mean = 5), rnorm(N, mean= 7)),
  fill    = rep(c('brown', 'navy'), each = N)
)

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# Boxplot comparison with map inset
# Set x_abs,y_abs, hjust, vjust to put the SVG in the top-right corner
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ggplot(value_df) +
  geom_boxplot(aes(x=country, y = value, colour=I(fill)))+
  geom_point_svg(
    mapping = NULL,
    x_abs = 0.99, y_abs = 0.99, hjust = 1, vjust = 1,
    css(".Canada"   , fill = 'brown'),  
    css(".Australia", fill = 'navy'),
    css("rect", fill='white'),       # Style the inset frame
    css("rect", stroke = '#555'),   # Style the inset frame
    css("rect", `stroke-width` = 5), # Style the inset frame
    svg = map_svg,
    size = 75
  ) +
  theme_bw()