[R] Introduction to maps (of Denmark)?

[Kingsford Jones]

Also, see this page for more ideas on mapping an auxiliary variable by county:

http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/gallery/

(e.g. plots 9, 14, 15 and 21)


Kingsford Jones

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Greg Snow <Greg.Snow at imail.org> wrote:
> Googling for Denmark Shapefile leads to this website: http://www.vdstech.com/map_data.htm
> Where a few clicks lead to downloading a set of shapefiles (different levels of subdividing the country, hopefully you know more about what they correspond to than I do, about all I know about Denmark is from Hamlet, the fact that I have some ancestors from there (but I don't remember which branch), and how to make aebleskivers).
>
> These can be read into R using the maptools package as:
>
> library(maptools)
> dmk1 <- readShapePoly('g:/downloads/DNK_adm/DNK0')
> dmk2 <- readShapePoly('g:/downloads/DNK_adm/DNK1')
> dmk3 <- readShapePoly('g:/downloads/DNK_adm/DNK2')
>
> simple plots can be done like:
>
> plot(dmk1)
> plot(dmk2)
> plot(dmk3)
>
> a little more complex with:
>
> plot(dmk3, col=topo.colors(248))
>
> though of course replacing topo.colors(248) with something that is meaningful.  If you need more control, then see the sp package.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
> Statistical Data Center
> Intermountain Healthcare
> greg.snow at imail.org
> 801.408.8111
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Jepsen
>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:18 PM
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Introduction to maps (of Denmark)?
>>
>> Dear R-listers,
>>
>> I am using R for Windows Vista 64-bit. I have no experience working
>> with
>> maps, but now I have to plot a map of Denmark in which each Danish
>> county is color-coded according to its incidence rate of a particular
>> disease. My problem is that I don't know where to start. I have read
>> the
>> help files to packages like 'mapplot', and their examples indicate that
>> I am on the right track, but where do I find a suitably detailed map of
>> Denmark, and which format should I prefer? The terminology in the help
>> files etc. is overwhelming.
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter.
>>
>> ***
>> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_CTYPE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_MONETARY
>> =
>> Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Danish_Denmark.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
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