[R] Trouble with Spatial Data Example Script

[John Kane]

As David Carlson mentioned earlier your script is working well for me. 

sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] sp_0.9-99

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] fortunes_1.5-0 grid_2.15.1    lattice_0.20-6


John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lorenzo.isella at gmail.com
> Sent: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:20:56 +0200
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Trouble with Spatial Data Example Script
> 
> Dear All,
> I need to do something relatively simple: generate a map of Europe and
> paint the various states with different colors (only 3-4 are needed)
> according to a rule.
> I would like to keep it as simple as possible and the script resorting to
> the sp package that I found at
> 
> http://bit.ly/Oc71ub
> 
> is exactly what I am looking for (I need to repeat the exercise with
> Europe instead of Switzerland and to have a legend).
> However, when I try to run the script (which I also paste at the end of
> the email), well, nothing happens and I certainly do not see a map of
> Switzerland.
> I am not familiar with the sp package, but am I missing the obvious?
> Any help is appreciated.
> Best Regards
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
> ########################################à
> 
> library(sp)
> con <- url("http://gadm.org/data/rda/CHE_adm1.RData")
> print(load(con))
> close(con)
> 
> 
> 
> language <- c("german", "german", "german","german",
>   "german","german","french", "french",
>   "german","german","french", "french",
>   "german", "french","german","german",
>   "german","german","german", "german",
>   "german","italian","german","french",
>   "french","german","german")
> gadm$language <- as.factor(language)
> col = rainbow(length(levels(gadm$language)))
> spplot(gadm, "language", col.regions=col, main="Swiss Language Regions")
> 
> ###########################################
> 
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