recmap: Compute the Rectangular Statistical Cartogram
Implements the RecMap MP2 construction heuristic <doi:10.1109/INFVIS.2004.57>. This algorithm draws maps according to a given statistical value, e.g., election results, population, or epidemiological data. The basic idea of the RecMap algorithm is that each map region, e.g., different countries, is represented by a rectangle. The area of each rectangle represents the statistical value provided as input to maintain zero cartographic error. Computationally intensive tasks are implemented in C++. The included vignette documents recmap algorithm usage.
| Version: | 1.0.20 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.5), GA (≥ 3.1), Rcpp (≥ 1.0), sp (≥ 1.3) |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp (≥ 1.0) |
| Suggests: | doParallel, knitr, rmarkdown, shiny, testthat, tufte |
| Published: | 2025-08-19 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.recmap |
| Author: | Christian Panse 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Christian Panse <Christian.Panse at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/cpanse/recmap/issues |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Citation: | recmap citation info |
| Materials: | NEWS |
| In views: | Spatial |
| CRAN checks: | recmap results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | recmap.html , recmap.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Draw your own Rectangular Statistical Cartogram with recmap (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | recmap_1.0.20.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: recmap_1.0.20.zip, r-release: recmap_1.0.20.zip, r-oldrel: recmap_1.0.17.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): recmap_1.0.20.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): recmap_1.0.17.tgz, r-release (x86_64): recmap_1.0.20.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): recmap_1.0.17.tgz |
| Old sources: | recmap archive |
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