Hello. May I suggest you try 'maptools' as well? I suspect it could be a little more newbie-friendly (but I'm not sure, as being forced to stick to Windows I never really checked Rmap out). For now you should be able to get what you want in a relatively short time. See ?read.shape ?plot.Map but if you are serious on it, take heed plot.Map is currently 'deprecated' so it won't be there in the future. You can then add text via low-level functions, see ?text. good luck! Giovanni ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:16:22 +0200 From: Laurence Amilhat <Laurence.Amilhat at toulouse.inra.fr> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] starting with Rmap To: R-sig-Geo at stat.math.ethz.ch Message-ID: <464828E6.2000006 at toulouse.inra.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello, I am a beginner in R programming, so sorry for the low level of this post... I would like to create a Europe map and plot some Informations on it, using lat/long coordinates. I've seen the Rmap project, which seems to do what I want. The thing is that I can't get started. I download the packages: maps, mapdata, spmaps, shapefiles I have a text file for the europe continent downloaded from the World data bank, but I don't know how to create a database that can be used by Rmap. So I tried with shapefiles, I have a shapefile for Europe, as is it noticed in the tutorial http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/Software/Rmap/ i tried: >europe <- shapefile("europe.shp") Erreur : impossible de trouver la fonction "shapefiles" = The function shapefile was not found. Do someone have an idea on what I am doing wrong, or know a good tutorial that can be helpfull for what I what to do. Many thanks, Laurence Amihat ------------------------------ Giovanni Millo Research Dept., Assicurazioni Generali SpA Via Machiavelli 4, 34131 Trieste (Italy) tel. +39 040 671184 fax +39 040 671160 Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazioni ...{{dropped}}
R: starting with Rmap
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