R help - Jul 2009 - CRAN + geography = Cranography

In response to an earlier discussion about finding the
fastest/best/nearest CRAN site, I geocoded (using my geonames package)
the locations of the CRAN sites returned by getCRANmirrors. I've
mapped them here:

http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Cranography/

The geocoding may have got it wrong, so if CRAN site maintainers want
to send me a real lat-long (in WGS 84 aka EPSG:4326) I'll update my
map. Maybe eventually lat-long can go in the CRAN csv file distributed
with R.

Note this is just for fun. No warranties. Maybe I should use a little
'R' as a marker. Maybe I should get a life.

Barry

Nice,

Maybe this could be combined with the map of the R empire as shown at useR!

Romain

On 07/30/2009 06:39 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> In response to an earlier discussion about finding the
> fastest/best/nearest CRAN site, I geocoded (using my geonames package)
> the locations of the CRAN sites returned by getCRANmirrors. I've
> mapped them here:
>
> http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Cranography/
>
> The geocoding may have got it wrong, so if CRAN site maintainers want
> to send me a real lat-long (in WGS 84 aka EPSG:4326) I'll update my
> map. Maybe eventually lat-long can go in the CRAN csv file distributed
> with R.
>
> Note this is just for fun. No warranties. Maybe I should use a little
> 'R' as a marker. Maybe I should get a life.
>
> Barry
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Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
> http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Cranography/
Absolutely beautiful!
> Note this is just for fun. No warranties. Maybe I should use a little
> 'R' as a marker.
That would be cool.
> Maybe I should get a life.
:-)

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