[R-sig-Geo] create cartogram shape files in R

[Roger Bivand]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Jose M. Pavia wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I have a shape file (~6000 polygons). The areas of the polygons in
> the shape file are really different, despite having be all of them
> designed to have similar population sizes. To perform posterior
> analyses using wavelets, I am interested in transforming these shape
> file in a cartogram shape file with (almost) equal density population
> in all of the resulting polygons. I wonder if somebody knows how we
> can solve this in R? Can anybody help?

Please see comments in:

http://spatial.ly/2013/06/r_activity/

James Cheshire's blog is certainly worth following!

Roger

>
> best regards
> jm
>
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