There are no plans for new features or enhancements in cartography.
Basic maintenance and support will continue indefinitely.
Existing projects that use cartography can safely continue to use cartography.
The mapsf R package is the successor of cartography and it is friendlier, lighter and more robust.
See mapsf website to migrate from cartography to mapsf.

This package helps to design cartographic representations such as proportional symbols, choropleth, typology, flows or discontinuities maps.

• Stable version on CRAN

install.packages("cartography")

• mapsf (successor of cartography)
• tmap
• ggplot2 + ggspatial

One can contribute to the package through pull requests and report issues or ask questions here.

To cite package cartography in publications use one of these:

• Giraud, T. and Lambert, N. (2016). cartography: Create and Integrate Maps in your R Workflow. JOSS, 1(4). doi: 10.21105/joss.00054.
• Giraud, T. and Lambert, N. (2017). “Reproducible Cartography.” In Peterson M. (ed.), Advances in Cartography and GIScience. ICACI 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography., pp. 173-183. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57336-6_13.