[R] color.ramp in maptools

[Marco Albani]

Dear list members,

I am trying to use the maptools library to display geographical data. At 
the moment I have some trouble understanding how the " auxvar " variable 
is supposed to be used in the plot.Map function.

I am using R Version 1.8.1  (2003-11-21) on Linux

Looking at the plot.Map function itself, I see that it calls a 
color.ramp function (I am reporting only the relevant part here):

...
     if (attr(theMap$Shapes, "shp.type") == "poly") {
         if (!is.null(auxvar) && nclass > 1) {
             col.rmp <- color.ramp(nclass, nvec = auxvar)
             for (i in recs) {
...


I don't seem to be able to get any information on this color.ramp 
function. In fact the function doesn't seem to exist if I search for it 
with ls()

Does anyone have any insight?


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