search for: cartograms

Q: Has anyone implemented cartograms [**] in R? A search on the R site turned up https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2005-December/000698.html which led to http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/index.php?cmd=read&page=Rmap%A4%F2%BB% C8%A4%C3%A4%BF%C3%CF%BF%DE%C9%BD%BC%A8&word=Rmap#content_1_35 which has (one form of) a cart...

I have a question which is not necessarily related to R. I want to use a distorted political map of the world with certain countries increased in size according to a certain variable (an idea similar to the homunculi usually found in psychology textbooks) to demonstrate the coverage of particular countries in a news service. Does anyone have any idea of how to approach this? I don't think

I am trying to install two R packages to produce cartograms like in the work of Gastner and Newman: http://www.pnas.org/content/101/20/7499.full.pdf but I have a problem installing Rcartogram and rdyncall packages. Both are not available in CRAN and have to be installed from archivea and produce errors: > install.packages("C:/Users/Milena/Downloa...

Hello, I apologize that this is off-topic. I am seeking information on perception of graphical data, in an effort to improve the plots I produce. Would anyone point me to literature reviews in this area? (Or keywords to try on google?) Is this located somewhere near cognitive science, psychology, human factors research? For example, some specific questions I have are: I recall as a child