[R-sig-Geo] mapcircles help

[chris english]

Timothee,
Best to ask as new question, perhaps "When to deprecate a package?", as
that will put you in front of the many many package authors and maintainers
that inform this discussion.
My thoughts.
Chris
On Jan 11, 2016 1:19 PM, "Timothée Giraud" <timothee.giraud at ums-riate.fr>
wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Many Thanks
>>
>> Krish
>>
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