r - Error when plotting sf object --- Error: could not find function "geom_sf"

Question

I'm currently running R Version 3.3.3 on Windows and have ggplot2 version 2.2.1 and the sf package version 0.5-4 and am getting an error saying that R could not find the function "geom_sf."

I expected to find the function because it is listed in Tidyverse documentation at http://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggsf.html.

The output of ls("package:ggplot2") did not show "geom_sf" as an included function and I could not find it in the library files.

Does anyone know how I might get this elusive package?

Answer 1

While running R as the administrator, reinstall ggplot2 like this:

devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2")
require(ggplot2)

You should be able to see it now with ?geom_sf

For questions related to using devtools, see this SO answer.