On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Gregor Gorjanc wrote: > Hello! > > I am a total newbie to map handling, but a keen R user. I have some > estimates by numbers per country (in names, such as Germany, France, > ...) and would like to add this information with use of color on world > and perhaps additionally to Europe map. How can this be achieved in R? > Any pointers to relevant literature/tutorials would be fine. >
Welcome! The answer depends on how you want to represent the countries graphically. Do you want to display the formatted numbers on a map of country borders, to fill the country polygons with colour or shading representing the values of the numbers, or maybe to put a filled bubble at some point representing the countries? Which countries? Are they already in the maps package (maybe not, some of the borders there are rather out-of-date)? library(maps) map("world", xlim=c(-12,35), ylim=c(35,65)) shows you a pretty old version of Europe! There are plenty of sources of border maps, but getting something matching the borders you need may require a bit of googling (usually looking for a vector representation). Does anybody have recommended websites for current European national border data (preferably in a format we can read)? Roger > Many thanks! > > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo