README.md

In USEPA/micromap: Linked Micromap Plots

micromap

This repository is for development of the USEPA R micromap package. If you would like to contribute to this repository please follow the guidelines in CONTRIBUTING.

Installing the package

Version 1.9.8 is the stable version on CRAN and can be installed as follows.

# install from CRAN
install.packages('micromap')
library(micromap)

The development version can be installed from the development branch on the repository.

# requires devools to install
install.packages('devtools')
library(devtools)

# install from repo
install_github('USEPA/micromap', ref = 'development')
library(micromap)

Citation

citation(package = 'micromap')

## To cite the micromap package in publications use:
## 
##   Quinn C. Payton, Michael G. McManus, Marc H. Weber, Anthony R. Olsen,
##   and Thomas M. Kincaid (2015). micromap: A Package for Linked
##   Micromaps. Journal of Statistical Software, 63(2), 1-16. URL
##   https://www.jstatsoft.org/v63/i02/.
## 
## A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
## 
##   @Article{,
##     title = {{micromap}: A Package for Linked Micromaps},
##     author = {Quinn Payton and Tony Olsen and Marc Weber and Michael McManus and Tom Kincaid and Marcus W. Beck},
##     journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
##     year = {2015},
##     volume = {63},
##     number = {2},
##     pages = {1--16},
##     doi = {10.18637/jss.v063.i02},
##   }

Using the functions

Please consult the publication in the Journal of Statistical Software for a general overview of the package. A vignette is also provided with the development version of the package:

# view vignette
vignette(package = 'micromap')

# open vignette
vignette('Introduction_Guide')

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License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License, GPL-2.

USEPA/micromap documentation built on April 15, 2024, 12:12 p.m.