Package: dots 0.0.3

Christopher T. Kenny

dots: Dot Density Maps

Generate point data for representing people within spatial data. This collects a suite of tools for creating simple dot density maps. Several functions from different spatial packages are standardized to take the same arguments so that they can be easily substituted for each other.

Authors:Christopher T. Kenny [aut, cre]

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NEWS

# Install 'dots' in R:

install.packages('dots', repos = c('https://christopherkenny.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/christopherkenny/dots/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://christophertkenny.com

Datasets:

boston_water - Boston Water
suffolk - Suffolk County, MA Voting Districts

On CRAN:

4.92 score 4 stars 14 scripts 558 downloads 14 exports 60 dependencies

Last updated from:ed874678ed. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	165
source / vignettes	OK	219
linux-release-x86_64	OK	168
macos-release-arm64	OK	132
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	152
windows-devel	OK	107
windows-release	OK	88
windows-oldrel	OK	127
wasm-release	OK	141

Exports:clip_water dots dots_points engine_sf_hexagonal engine_sf_random engine_sf_regular engine_sp_clustered engine_sp_hexagonal engine_sp_nonaligned engine_sp_random engine_sp_regular engine_sp_stratified engine_terra filter_pts

Dependencies:bit bit64 class classInt cli clipr cpp11 crayon curl DBI dplyr e1071 farver generics geojsonsf geometries ggplot2 glue gtable hms isoband jsonify jsonlite KernSmooth labeling lattice lifecycle magrittr MASS pillar pkgconfig prettyunits progress proxy purrr R6 rapidjsonr RColorBrewer Rcpp readr rlang rmapshaper s2 S7 scales sf sfheaders sp terra tibble tidyselect tzdb units utf8 V8 vctrs viridisLite vroom withr wk

Making Dot Density Maps

Rendered frommaking_dot_density_maps.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon May 31 2026.

Last update: 2025-09-05
Started: 2022-07-09

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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Boston Water	boston_water
Remove Water	clip_water
Make dot density plots	dots
Make dot density points	dots_points
Generate Hexagonal Points with 'sf'	engine_sf_hexagonal
Generate Random Points with 'sf'	engine_sf_random
Generate Regular Points with 'sf'	engine_sf_regular
Generate Clustered Points with 'sp'	engine_sp_clustered
Generate Hexagonal Points with 'sp'	engine_sp_hexagonal
Generate Nonaligned Points with 'sp'	engine_sp_nonaligned
Generate Random Points with 'sp'	engine_sp_random
Generate Regular Points with 'sp'	engine_sp_regular
Generate Stratified Points with 'sp'	engine_sp_stratified
Generate Points with 'terra'	engine_terra
Filter Points to a Region	filter_pts
Suffolk County, MA Voting Districts	suffolk