[R] merging data frame with world map

[Michael Dewey]

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On 07/03/2016 12:21, hoda rahmati via R-help wrote:
> Hi all,I have a data frame which have a column named COUNTRY, I want to merge my data frame with world map from ggmap to plot it on world map, but when I merge my data frame with world map I get 0 observations! Here is my main data frame (mydata):
>      'data.frame':   269265 obs. of  470 variables:
>       $ Serial       : num  41568 41568 41568 41568 41568 ...
>       $ Duration     : num  218 351 250 200 375 91 236 250 236 322 ...
>       $ COUNTRY      : Factor w/ 27 levels "","AU","BA","BE",..: 8 8 8 8 8

COUNTRY

> and here is the command for merging with world map:
>       word_map=merge(world_map,mydata,by.x="region",by.y="country")

country

>       str(world_map)
>       'data.frame':   0 obs. of  475 variables:
>       $ Serial       : num
>       $ Duration     : num
>       $ COUNTRY      : chr
> how should I correct this world_map structure to have all my observations? And I could not use rworldmap in R 3.2.3,anyone used this library in version 3.2.3?
> Thanks for any help.
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