Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, tom sgouros wrote: Is this another way to say that I've stumbled onto one of the borders between the set of tasks that R does well and the set of tasks I should use a GIS for? Or should I persevere with R on this? Not really, this is a generic problem for shapefiles, whi

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread tom sgouros
Is this another way to say that I've stumbled onto one of the borders between the set of tasks that R does well and the set of tasks I should use a GIS for? Or should I persevere with R on this? Second question: if I want to just do this assembly myself, so to keep some control over placement, i

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, tom sgouros wrote: Roger Bivand wrote: Being near the water, there are lots of islands, so each town is represented by a bunch of polygons. How do I select only one to be labeled, and is there a convention for which one would be the best to use? I see the labpt slot, i

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread tom sgouros
Roger Bivand wrote: > > Being near the water, there are lots of islands, so each town is > > represented by a bunch of polygons. How do I select only one to be > > labeled, and is there a convention for which one would be the best to > > use? I see the labpt slot, in my SpatialPolygonsDataFram

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, tom sgouros wrote: Hello all: Thanks to all your earlier help, I'm now using spplot to generate a map of about 400 polygons representing about 40 different towns. In addition to being able to color the polygons, I would like to label the plots with a number or the town na

[R-sig-Geo] Map labels

2009-11-23 Thread tom sgouros
Hello all: Thanks to all your earlier help, I'm now using spplot to generate a map of about 400 polygons representing about 40 different towns. In addition to being able to color the polygons, I would like to label the plots with a number or the town name. Being near the water, there are lots