Thanks Edzer, I shall try again: 1) I would like to use spplot to map my factor "TYP" as dots of different colours, however the resulting plot uses the same colours for the first and last value (10,40). I guess that my use of the "cuts" argument is wrong, but I can't find any better:
LAT <-c(-6.5, -5.5, -9.5, -8.5, -7.5, -6.5, -7.5, -6.5) LON <-c(31.5, 31.5, 32.5, 32.5, 32.5, 32.5, 33.5, 33.5) TYP <-c(rep(c(10,20,30,40),2)) a1<- as.data.frame(cbind(LON, LAT, TYP)) coordinates(a1)<- ~ LON + LAT a1$TYP<-as.factor(a1$TYP) spplot(a1, zcol="TYP", cuts=c(10,20,30,40), col.regions=heat.colors(4), scales=list(draw=TRUE)) 2) I would then like to overlay these dots over the SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of an imported shapefile EA: points <- list("sp.points", a1, zcol="TYP", cuts=c(10,20,30,40),col.regions=heat.colors(4),pch=19) spplot(EA, zcol='ADM0_CODE', sp.layout=list(points), scales=list(draw=TRUE), col.regions='transparent', colorkey=FALSE, xlim=c(31,34), ylim=c(-10,-5)) Does this work? I only get unicoloured dots and am not sure whether this is due to my problem 1) or whether there is another error. Very grateful for any help, Friderike _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo