The combination of the sp and maptools packages will read in shapefiles and plot them, you just need to find a shapefile that has the countries that you are interested in (google for shape files, there are a lot of free ones available, I have not checked for the countries you specified, but I expect there are some available).
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> wrote: > What would you suggest I do to create a world map highlighting Taiwan > and post-Soviet states like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, > Turkmenistan, and Croatia? > > > The region argument in maps::map won't recognize any of these, and my > literature search identified hundreds of packages with some spatial / > geographical / mapping content. > > > Thanks, > Spencer Graves > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo