topogram

library(topogram)
library(htmltools)

Create continuous area cartograms with cartogram-chart:

topogram(world, value = "pop_est")

First argument is an sf object containing geometries to visualize, the specify a numeric variable to use to distort those geometries.

You can use a glue string to be used in tooltip, specify geographic projection to use, add labs and legend, …

world %>% 
  topogram( 
    value = "pop_est", 
    label = "{name}: {format(pop_est, big.mark = ',')}",
    palette = scales::col_bin("Blues", bins = 20, domain = NULL)
  ) %>% 
  topogram_legend(
    title = "Population",
    formatter = scales::label_comma()
  ) %>% 
  topogram_labs(
    title = "World population",
    subtitle = "Population estimate for 2017",
    caption = tagList(
      "Data source:",
      tags$a(
        href = "https://www.naturalearthdata.com/",
        "NaturalEarth"
      )
    )
  )

R markdown

In Markdown documents, you can use topogram_select(), to add a menu to update variable used to distort topology interactively. First add select menu:

topogram_select(
  topogramId = "ID",
  sfobj = world,
  values = list(
    "Population" = "pop_est",
    "GDP" = "gdp_md_est", 
    "CO2 emissions (1990)" = "co2_emissions_1990", 
    "CO2 emissions (2020)" = "co2_emissions_2020", 
    "Share of electricity production from renewables" = "renewables_percent_electricity"
  ),
  label = "{name} : {value}"
)

Then create topogram:

topogram(
  sfobj = world,
  value = "pop_est", 
  label = "{name} : {value}",
  elementId = "ID"
)

Shiny

In Shiny applications, a proxy method is available to update a topogram.

function(input, output, session) {

  # Initialize the topogram (non reactive)
  output$ID <- renderTopogram({
    topogram(
      sfobj = world,
      value = "pop_est", 
      label = "{name} : {value}"
    ) %>% 
      topogram_legend(title = "Population")
  })

  # Update with proxy
  observeEvent(input$new_value, {
    topogram_proxy_update(
      "ID", world, 
      value = input$new_value,
      label = "{name} : {value}"
    ) %>% 
      topogram_legend(title = input$new_value)
  }, ignoreInit = TRUE)

}