creating map with gps data ...

It certainly is. I would suggest switching to using sf if you're new to spatial data as it has some advantages over the sp package taught in this tutorial. Check this out as a starting point sf objects http://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/spatial-class.html and this on reading-in data (mentions gpx): http://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/read-write.html

Reproducible example showing how to load and create maps with gpx data from OSM:

library(sf)                                                                         
#> Linking to GEOS 3.5.1, GDAL 2.2.2, proj.4 4.9.2
download.file("https://www.openstreetmap.org/trace/1619756/data", "Sheff2leeds.gpx")
st_layers("Sheff2leeds.gpx")                                                        
#> Driver: GPX 
#> Available layers:
#>     layer_name     geometry_type features fields
#> 1    waypoints             Point        0     23
#> 2       routes       Line String        0     12
#> 3       tracks Multi Line String        1     12
#> 4 route_points             Point        0     25
#> 5 track_points             Point     6085     26
route = st_read("Sheff2leeds.gpx", layer = "tracks")                                
#> Reading layer `tracks' from data source `/tmp/Rtmpb4EGb8/Sheff2leeds.gpx' using driver `GPX'
#> Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 12 fields
#> geometry type:  MULTILINESTRING
#> dimension:      XY
#> bbox:           xmin: -1.50362 ymin: 53.40529 xmax: -1.411626 ymax: 53.65617
#> epsg (SRID):    4326
#> proj4string:    +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
plot(route)                                                                         
#> Warning: plotting the first 9 out of 12 attributes; use max.plot = 12 to
#> plot all


# also try:                                                                         
library(tmap)                                                                       
qtm(route)

ttm()                                                                               
#> tmap mode set to interactive viewing
qtm(route)

mapview::mapview(route)

Session info

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