Re: [R] Election Maps

2008-11-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Duncan Temple Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( You will first need to have libfftw3 installed. And there is no For those curious, and on Gentoo, emerge sci-libs/fftw. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how

Re: [R] Election Maps

2008-11-08 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
I've been marginally curious about this since 2004, and spent a little time providing the beginnings of a port which gives the basic facilities of Mark Newman's code in R. There is a package on the Omegahat repository via install.packages(Rcartogram, repos = http://www.omegahat.org/R;,

Re: [R] Election Maps

2008-11-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/7/2008 8:31 AM, roger koenker wrote: Those of you with an interest in the US election and/or statistical graphics may find the maps at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ interesting. Nice stuff. Do you know if anyone has ported the cartogram code to R? I see

Re: [R] Election Maps

2008-11-07 Thread hadley wickham
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/2008 8:31 AM, roger koenker wrote: Those of you with an interest in the US election and/or statistical graphics may find the maps at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ interesting.

[R] Election Maps

2008-11-07 Thread roger koenker
Those of you with an interest in the US election and/or statistical graphics may find the maps at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ interesting. url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker email[EMAIL PROTECTED]Department of Economics

Re: [R] Election Maps

2008-11-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:02 PM, hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The source code (in C) for this type of cartogram (Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps) is available from here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/cart/download/ From the documentation [1]: If you