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2 messages · John Lipkins, Kingsford Jones

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Hey,

A basic question. Is there anyone that knows a good text on using the
R packages map and maptools for R? I have read the references for both
but having trouble getting started.

What I want to do is to load a map (.shp file) and display statistics
on this maps using colours.

Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,

John
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Hi John,

The SIDS examples in the spatial graphics gallery may be helpful:

http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/gallery/

For a general reference, see Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R.
Note that the book's webpage includes figures with code

http://www.asdar-book.org/

There's also the spatial Task View

http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html

and an active spatial mailing list

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/R-SIG-Geo/


hth,

Kingsford Jones

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, John
Lipkins<john.lipkins at googlemail.com> wrote: