Here is the link from CDC
Need to create a map like this one label the state and different color filling the location based on the various data. Any help will be much appreciated! Thank you.
It's called a choropleth map and you can definitely make one in R. Probably easiest using the chroroplethr package, though can be done without as well. Check out this tutorial, for example:
Here's another: http://www.bargava.com/Intro-to-Choropleth-using-R/
@mara Thank you so much! I will take a look.
There is also a good discussion in Chapter 7 of Kieran Healy's Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction