Nathalie, You could have a look at the web site of the Institut Géographique National (http://www.ign.fr) where you can download a free SHAPEFILE with polygon data for the French départements. You can choose one of two projections: LAMBERT II étendu or LAMBERT 93 (http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=810&lng_id=FR). In the associated DBF file, you get the name and the x,y coordinates for the préfecture of each département.
You could use these data in R with one of the packages which read shapefiles (for example, 'shapefiles' which is on CRAN or the draft package 'maptools'- see http://spatial.nhh.no/R/ - which is already very useful as it is). I hope it helps. Christophe -- Christophe DECLERCQ, MD Observatoire Régional de la Santé Nord-Pas-de-Calais 13, rue Faidherbe 59046 LILLE Cedex FRANCE Phone +33 3 20 15 49 24 Fax +33 3 20 55 92 30 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Peyrard Nathalie > Envoyé : lundi 30 juin 2003 15:21 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : [R] french map > > > Hello, > > I would like to know if (as the usa map with Splus), it is possible with > R to plot the french map and to add points (representing towns for > instance) on the figure in the appropriate (x,y) system. > Thank you. > > Nathalie Peyrard > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help