[R] maps in R

[Heberto Ghezzo]

Hello. Any idea if this map package will be ported to R-windows?
What is in it that is Unix/Linux dependent?
not the computations and projections, must be only the plotting?

Date sent:      Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:10:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:           Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
Subject:        Re: [R] maps in R
To:             Claudia Tebaldi <tebaldi at ucar.edu>
Copies to:      r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, Gardar Johannesson <gardar at stat.ohio-state.edu>
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> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Claudia Tebaldi wrote:
> 
> > Hi everybody
> > 
> > Does any of you know how to mimick the functionality of the Splus
> > library "maps "  in R?
> > 
> > I.E.:I'd like to draw contours of the US and individual states, and be
> > able to overlay points by giving lat/long coordinates to points() or
> > text() functions.  I'd be a happy camper with just the state-level
> > resolution. . . .
> > 
> A port to R without projection by Ray Brownrigg is available on:
> 
> ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map/
> 
> with versions for Linux/Intel or Solaris/Sparc - it's largish, because it
> includes the binary versions of the databases. It was last updated in
> September 2000. It was first mentioned in r-help on 13 November 1999, with
> the above address.
> 
> I can confirm that it works for 1.3.0 on RH7.0 Linux Intel:
> 
> > map('state')
> 
> Happy camping!
> 
> Roger
> 
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R. Heberto Ghezzo  Ph.D.
Meakins-Christie Labs
McGill University
Montreal - Canada
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