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
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
Spencer,
Maybe I'm not sure what you're asking but here http://www.gadm.org/version1
are current shapefiles by country. The highlighting (selection) canals be
done in GRASS GIS, QGIS, GMT
Tom
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com
wrote:
What would
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Adams tea...@gmail.com wrote:
Spencer,
Maybe I'm not sure what you're asking but here
http://www.gadm.org/version1
are current shapefiles by country. The highlighting (selection) canals be
done in GRASS GIS, QGIS, GMT
raster::getData can read
An example:
library(raster)
ct - getData(countries)
plot(subset(ct, NAME %in% c(Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Croatia))
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Michael Sumner mdsum...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Adams tea...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to Gilles Leduc, Greg Snow, Thomas Adams, Barry
Rowlingson, and Michael Sumner for their replies. For the archives, in
case someone else might find this in the archives, I will record here
two solutions to my problem.
1. Michael's reply was the simplest, especially since
