rCarto-package: Maps with Full Cartographic Layout

In rCarto: This package builds maps with a full cartographic layout.

Description

This package makes some maps using shapefiles and dataframes. Five kinds of maps are available:

• proportionnal circles

• proportionnal circles colored by discretized quantitative data

• proportionnal circles colored by modalities of qualitative data

• choropleth

• typology

Details

Package:	rCarto
Type:	Package
Version:	0.8
Date:	2013-03-19
License:	GPL (>=2.0)

Note

Some part of the code (legend position, management of diverging color palettes) are inspired by some functions of the rgrs package.

Author(s)

Timothee Giraud - UMS RIATE (CNRS)
<[e-mail]>

References

RColorBrewer, maptools, classInt and rgrs packages

Bivand, Roger S., Pebesma, Edzer J., Gomez-Rubio, Virgilio, 2008, Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, Springer.

Tanimura, S., Kuroiwa, C., and Mizota, T. (2006) Proportional symbol mapping in R. Journal of Statistical Software 15(5). http://www.jstatsoft.org/v15/i05/paper

See Also

rCarto-package	rCarto package
mapCircles	proportional circles
mapCirclesChoro	proportional circles colored by a discretized quantitative variable
mapCirclesTypo	proportional circles colored by the modalities of a qualitative variable
mapChoropleth	choropleth
mapChoroTypo	typology
mtq	data
commune	shapefile

rCarto documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:20 a.m.