[R-sig-Geo] mapcircles help

[Timothée Giraud]

Hi,
As maintainer of the rCarto package, my advice would be to switch to the 
cartography package (of which I am also maintainer) and the 
propSymbolsLayer function in it. Examples and the vignette will help you 
through the mapping process.

My turn to ask for an advice:
rCarto was my first package and after a while we decide to build an 
other, better, thematic mapping package (i.e. the cartography package). 
cartography is much more R-ish in its use of the graphic device, offers 
more kinds of maps and has more options to customize the maps.
So my question is: what should I do with rCarto? Remove it from CRAN? 
Deprecate all functions in it? Add a visible comment to incite users to 
switch to cartography?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tim





Le 11/01/2016 10:56, Mistry, Krishan a écrit :
> Dear Sirs/Madame,
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> I have a spatial polygons data frame and want to map proportional circles on it. I have tried using the map circles function in rCarto as seen below but it doesn't seem to work an continues to show errors. Do I need to convert the spatial polygons data frame to a shapefile if so I would I do this?
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> mapCircles(shpFile, shpId, df, dfId, var,
>            fixedNorm =ALSE, shareOfCircles = 0.02,
>            radiusMax =.5, valueMax = max(df[, var], na.rm = TRUE),
>            lgdRnd =, posLeg = "bottomleft",
>            circleCol =#FD8D3C", baseCol = "#FFEDA0",
>            title =ar, legend = var, author = "author", sources = "sources",
>            scalebar =ALSE, scalebarSize, scalebarText,
>            northArrow =ALSE, northArrowSize,
>            width =ULL, height = NULL, txtCex = NULL)
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> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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> Many Thanks
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> Krish
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