Making a dot density map with tmap package

Asked Dec 30 '20 at 00:37

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I am trying to make a map using the tmap package, but i don't know the code to do a dot density map. The dataset i have consists of births, and i want to plot the number of births on each region of my map as dots (regions with higher number of births would have higher number of dots). I am not sure if tmap has a function like this, I only know tm_bubble. The map would look like this:

asked Dec 30 '20 at 00:37

Wilmer Cristobal Guzman-Vilca

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I don't think you can do it in `tmap`. You can try other packages: https://blog.cultureofinsight.com/2017/06/building-dot-density-maps-with-uk-census-data-in-r/ – william3031 Dec 30 '20 at 05:04
Is there a way to plot 2D density with tmap package? – Nip Aug 18 '21 at 00:47
Hi, I don't think so. But I did it with ggplot! – Wilmer Cristobal Guzman-Vilca Aug 20 '21 at 17:40

Making a dot density map with tmap package

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