I am using R1.2.0 on Windows NT4.0 and am looking for information on drawing geographical maps. [The things I'd like to do at the moment are rather simple, just like plotting the values of some variable (e.g. a SMR) on a given map.] Searching the r-help mailing list archives, it seems this topic comes up from time to time. For example, in November 1999 Ray Brownrigg writes about an "R maps package" (but for Linux only), and in October 2000 Ross Ihaka tells about work on "getting the Becker-Wilks Maps in S code working in R" and "putting together an R library for reading, writing, plotting and manipulating shapefiles". So my question is, what kind of stuff (if any) is currently available for a Windows user? (Looking on CRAN, I couldn't find anything.) Heinrich. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
RINNER Heinrich wrote:> Searching the r-help mailing list archives, it seems this topic comes up > from time to time. For example, in November 1999 Ray Brownrigg writes about > an "R maps package" (but for Linux only), and in October 2000 Ross Ihaka > tells about work on "getting the Becker-Wilks Maps in S code working in R" > and "putting together an R library for reading, writing, plotting and > manipulating shapefiles".Just to update this. The work is still progressing (a masters student of mine doing the job). We have decided to throw away the projections code in Becker & Wilks and switch to PROJ4 (a change made possible by recent memory management work by Luke Tierney). I can't give a time frame on this because it is (partially) out of my hands. -- Ross Ihaka Email: ihaka at stat.auckland.ac.nz Department of Statistics Phone: (64-9) 373-7599 x 5054 University of Auckland Fax: (64-9) 373-7018 Private Bag 92019, Auckland New Zealand -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._