Re: [R-sig-Geo] Editing Shapefiles

2005-12-14 Thread Hisaji ONO
Hello. Sorry I'm not "Dr." Here is my Non-Contiguous Area-based "Shrinking" Cartogram script for maptools. This script doesn't support multi-parts polygon shape. Please try this. ### require(maptools) # # Non Contiguous Area-based Cartogram # createNonContiguousAreaBasedCarto

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Editing Shapefiles, and cartograms

2005-12-14 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi, In the days when I had more time to work on this stuff I looked into programming continuous cartograms for maptools. If I remember correctly Danny Dorlings approach produced really nicely arranged circualr cartograms. I also remember that the optimization he used was fairly inefficient and cou

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Editing Shapefiles

2005-12-14 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Susumu Tanimura wrote: > Dear Roger and others > > > The work on Susumu Tanimura's web pages is magnificent, really very > > useful, and I agree completely with Nicholas that it will be very > > useful to make it available to others through packages on CRAN. > > Let me note

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Editing Shapefiles

2005-12-14 Thread Susumu Tanimura
Dear Roger and others > The work on Susumu Tanimura's web pages is magnificent, really very > useful, and I agree completely with Nicholas that it will be very > useful to make it available to others through packages on CRAN. Let me note that the web site is NOT MINE, but of the Rjpwiki project

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Editing Shapefiles

2005-12-14 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Susumu Tanimura wrote: > Dear Rick Reeves and members > > > But ne question: where is the polycoords() method defined? I can't find > > it... > > I guess it come from Rmap package. You may use Rmap or write a same > function with maptools. Yes, it is a method in Rmap defi