Q: Has anyone implemented cartograms [**] in R? A search on the R
site turned up
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2005-December/000698.html
which led to
http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/index.php?cmd=read&page=Rmap%A4%F2%BB%
C8%A4%C3%A4%BF%C3%CF%BF%DE%C9%BD%BC%A8&word=Rmap#content_1_35
which has (one form of) a cartogram as a PNG, but which doesn't seem
to have code. (The site is in Japanese, so I can't be sure on the
code availability.)
** A cartogram are geographical maps in which region boundaries are
distorted to represent some property of interest, e.g. population
density. For an introduction, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartogram
and for some elegant examples for election results, see
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election
Dan E. Kelley, Assoc. Prof. phone:(902)494-1694
Dept. Oceanography fax:(902)494-2885
Dalhousie University mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4J1 http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/
Kelley_Dan.html
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