cartogram (version 0.3.0)

cartogram_dorling: Calculate Non-Overlapping Circles Cartogram

Description

Construct a cartogram which represents each geographic region as non-overlapping circles (Dorling 1996).

Usage

cartogram_dorling(x, weight, k = 5, m_weight = 1, itermax = 1000)
# S3 method for sf
cartogram_dorling(x, weight, k = 5, m_weight = 1, itermax = 1000)
# S3 method for SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
cartogram_dorling(x, weight, k = 5, m_weight = 1, itermax = 1000)

Value

Non overlaping proportional circles of the same class as x.

Arguments

x

a polygon or multiplogyon sf object

weight

Name of the weighting variable in x

k

Share of the bounding box of x filled by the larger circle

m_weight

Circles' movements weights. An optional vector of numeric weights (0 to 1 inclusive) to apply to the distance each circle moves during pair-repulsion. A weight of 0 prevents any movement. A weight of 1 gives the default movement distance. A single value can be supplied for uniform weights. A vector with length less than the number of circles will be silently extended by repeating the final value. Any values outside the range [0, 1] will be clamped to 0 or 1.

itermax

Maximum iterations for the cartogram transformation.

References

Dorling, D. (1996). Area Cartograms: Their Use and Creation. In Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography (CATMOG), 59.

Examples

library(sf)
library(cartogram)

nc = st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"), quiet = TRUE)

# transform to NAD83 / UTM zone 16N
nc_utm <- st_transform(nc, 26916)

# Create cartogram
nc_utm_carto <- cartogram_dorling(nc_utm, weight = "BIR74")

# Plot 
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(nc[,"BIR74"], main="original", key.pos = NULL, reset = FALSE)
plot(nc_utm_carto[,"BIR74"], main="distorted", key.pos = NULL, reset = FALSE)