[R] maptools package

[Phil Spector]

Aleksandr -
    What happens when you use

library(maptools)
spb = readShapePoly('/home/sasha/Documents/maps/spb.shp')

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu



On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Aleksandr Andreev wrote:

> A few years back, I wrote some code to plot maps with the maptools
> package. Now I am trying to reproduce my results, only to find out
> that maptools has been updated and my code no longer works.
>
> I've been able to fix the first part of it by forcing
> spb <- maptools:::read.shape("/home/sasha/Documents/maps/spb.shp")
>
> (as read.shape has been deprecated)
>
> but now when I do
> plot(spb, xlab="Longitude", ylab="Latitude", main="Map of St
> Petersburg, Russia")
>
> I get the message
> Error in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log) :
>  'x' is a list, but does not have components 'x' and 'y'
>
> What's the new syntax that I'm supposed to use?
>
> I'm using R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> Thanks,
>
> ------------------------
> Aleksandr Andreev
> Graduate Student - Department of Economics
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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