ggplot centered names on a map

Question

I\'m attempting to use ggplot2 and maps to plot the names of the counties in NY state. My approach was to find the means of latitude and longitude by county (I assume this

Answer 1

It was pointed out to me by @tjebo while I was trying out to make a new stat, that this stat would be an appropriate solution for this question. It's not on CRAN (yet) but lives on github.

For other people dealing with a similar problem, here is how that would work:

library(ggh4x) # devtools::install_github("teunbrand/ggh4x")
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
#> Warning: package 'ggplot2' was built under R version 4.0.2
library(maps)

county_df <- map_data('county')
ny <- subset(county_df, region=="new york")
ny$county <- ny$subregion


ggplot(ny, aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group)) +  
  geom_polygon(colour='black', fill=NA) +
  stat_midpoint(aes(label = subregion), geom = "text",size=3) +
  coord_map()

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