micromapST (version 3.0.2)
Linked Micromap Plots for U. S. and Other Geographic Areas
Description
Provides the users with the ability to quickly create
linked micromap plots for a collection of geographic areas.
Linked micromap plots are visualizations of geo-referenced data
that link statistical graphics to an organized series of small
maps or graphic images. The Help description contains examples
of how to use the 'micromapST' function. Contained in this
package are border group datasets to support creating linked
micromap plots for the 50 U.S. states and District of Columbia
(51 areas), the U. S. 20 Seer Registries, the 105 counties in
the state of Kansas, the 62 counties of New York, the 24
counties of Maryland, the 29 counties of Utah, the 32
administrative areas in China, the 218 administrative areas in
the UK and Ireland (for testing only), the 25 districts in the
city of Seoul South Korea, and the 52 counties on the Africa
continent.
A border group dataset contains the boundaries related to the
data level areas, a second layer boundaries, a top or third
layer boundary, a parameter list of run options, and a cross
indexing table between area names, abbreviations, numeric
identification and alias matching strings for the specific
geographic area. By specifying a border group, the package
create linked micromap plots for any geographic region. The
user can create and provide their own border group dataset for
any area beyond the areas contained within the package. In version 3.0.0,
the 'BuildBorderGroup' function was upgraded to not use the retiring
'maptools', 'rgdal', and 'rgeos' packages.
References: Carr and Pickle, Chapman and Hall/CRC, Visualizing
Data Patterns with Micromaps, CRC Press, 2010. Pickle, Pearson,
and Carr (2015), micromapST: Exploring and Communicating
Geospatial Patterns in US State Data., Journal of Statistical
Software, 63(3), 1-25., .
Copyrighted 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023, and 2024 by Carr, Pearson
and Pickle.