# cart_polygon

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##### Calculate coordinates of transformed polygons to make cartograms

Based on the given sizes of polygons, this function calculates the transformed coordinates using the Rcartogram package.

##### Usage
cart_polygon(x, y, name, size, diffuse, nrow = 100, ncol = 100, blank.init = 0.8,  ...)
##### Arguments
x,y
the x and y coordinates of original polygons (polygons are separated by NA's)
name
the names of original polygons
size
the size vector of polygons (length must be equal to the number of polygons, i.e. the number of NA's plus 1)
diffuse
a positive value to control the diffusing/shrinking rate
blank.init
fill the NA's of the grids with blank.init * min(size)
nrow,ncol
numbers to define a grid for the cartogram algorithm (see references in Rcartogram); this can affect the convergence and speed of the algorithm, so may need to be adjusted for a few times
...
other arguments passed to cartogram
##### Value

A data frame of two columns x and y (coordinates of transformed polygons)

• cart_polygon
##### Examples
library(cranvas)

## a simple example: two polygons of size 1 and 5 respectively
theta <- seq(0, 2 * pi, length = 100)
x <- c(cos(theta), NA, cos(theta) + 2)
y <- c(sin(theta), NA, sin(theta) + 1)

res <- cart_polygon(x, y, c("x", "y"), c(1, 5), diffuse = 100, nrow = 100, ncol = 100,
blank.init = 0.1)

plot(res$x, res$y, type = "n")
polygon(x, y)
text(c(0, 2), c(0, 1), c(1, 5))  # original polygons
polygon(res$x, res$y, border = "red", lty = 2, lwd = 2)  # transformed polygons

## see map_qdata() for examples of real maps

Documentation reproduced from package cranvas, version 0.8.5, License: GPL

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