John Snow's cholera data/map: a more sp-ish way?
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Michael Friendly wrote:
Hi In a new package, HistData, on R-Forge, I have a collection of historical data sets, some map-related, including the map and data related to John Snow's famous map of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London. https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/histdata/ I have two examples in example(Snow) that re-create the map of deaths, one showing Theissen polygon boundaries around the water pumps, the other showing bivariate density contours, but they are entirely done using base graphics and ordinary data frames. I'm wondering if anyone is willing to help me show a more sp-ish way to organize the data and map info and make these and other plots. More generally, I would welcome any other contributions to this project.
Michael, This is good news. I'm sorry that I didn't respond to your message about the Guerry dataset from almost two weeks ago, I ought to have done. I'll try to get back to you on both that question: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2009-October/006673.html and this one. I encourage others to join in, because the R-forge package has the potential to become a valuable resource. Best wishes, Roger
-Michael
Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no