Re: [R-sig-Geo] symbols in spplot

2009-02-05 Thread Peter van Horssen
Thanks Roger, your trick worked, reworking the polygon data to a raster and plotting the file with image() and then plotting the rest with plot(, add=TRUE) works great (see attached code). It shows that the famous KISS principle (keep is simple, stupid ) also applies to plotting maps in R

Re: [R-sig-Geo] symbols in spplot

2009-02-04 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Peter van Horssen wrote: Dear all, I have a plot problem which is related to the 'contourlines on a plot question' from a while ago. I have a map with 144 polygons (squares), for each square we calculate the mean flight direction (of birds). What I try to plot is a map

[R-sig-Geo] symbols in spplot

2009-02-04 Thread Peter van Horssen
Dear all, I have a plot problem which is related to the 'contourlines on a plot question' from a while ago. I have a map with 144 polygons (squares), for each square we calculate the mean flight direction (of birds). What I try to plot is a map with the samplesize as a greyscale in the pol