cartography

3.1.5

Thematic Cartography

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30.9Kdownloads / year

97.6%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Timothée GiraudFirst published 2015-10-0624 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create and integrate maps in your R workflow. This package helps to design cartographic representations such as proportional symbols, choropleth, typology, flows or discontinuities maps. It also offers several features that improve the graphic presentation of maps, for instance, map palettes, layout elements (scale, north arrow, title...), labels or legends. See Giraud and Lambert (2017) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57336-6_13.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("cartography", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("riatelab/cartography")

Development version from riatelab/cartography. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-cartography

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-cartography

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Repository

GitHub ↗ riatelab/cartography

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15Contributors

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Continuous integration (1)

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Research and citation (2)

CITATION.cffcodemeta.json

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (12)

classInt curlgraphicsmethodspng raster Rcpp sf spstatsutilsgrDevices

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (6)

lwgeom SpatialPosition knitr rmarkdown tinytest covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

GeoWeightedModel SpatialPosition cartograflow penfa

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Timothée Giraud

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Timothée Giraud

Maintainer, Author

Nicolas Lambert

Author

Contributors (1)

Diego Hernangómez

Contributor · added in 2.4.0

Ian Fellows

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-06
Total releases: 24 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 1.9 MB
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