[R] Making a map in R?

[Kingsford Jones]

I sent the wrong link for the spatial Task View.  Here it is

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Kingsford Jones
<kingsfordjones at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are many ways to do this, depending on what type of spatial data
>  you are working with and what you want your maps to look like.  The sp
>  package provides S4 classes and methods for working with GIS data. Two
>  likely candidates for importing data are the rgdal and maptools
>  packages.  See the Spatial Task View:
>  http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html
>
>  Also, there is a r-sig for spatial data:
>  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
>
>  Kingsford Jones
>
>
>
>  On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:56 AM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Does anyone know of a package to make a map from GIS data, and/or would it
>  >  be easier in one of the free GIS programs.  I would like to make a map of
>  >  the savannah river area with our sampling locations.
>  >  thanks
>  >
>  >  stephen
>  >
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