I have been handed a CD ROM with statistical data readable with a program named PC-Axis. There is the possibility of creating custom maps to display the data. Aparently, this is handled by a program named PX-Map. Looking in the CD ROM I see files with extension .shp which I guess contain information about boundaries or shapes. Does any one know if there is a way to use this information from within R? I have been looking at the maps package and the GRASS interface to no avail. Any help appreciated. -- Fernando TUSELL e-mail: Departamento de Econometr?a y Estad?stica etptupaf at bs.ehu.es Facultad de CC.EE. y Empresariales Tel: (+34)94.601.3733 Avenida Lendakari Aguirre, 83 Fax: (+34)94.601.3754 E-48015 BILBAO (Spain) Secr: (+34)94.601.3740
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, F. Tusell wrote:> I have been handed a CD ROM with statistical data readable with a > program named PC-Axis. There > is the possibility of creating custom maps to display the data. > Aparently, this is handled by a program > named PX-Map. Looking in the CD ROM I see files with extension .shp > which I guess contain > information about boundaries or shapes.As I read one googled PX-MAP source: http://www.ginorden.org/konf/getpaper.php?ID=71 it looks as though: "Map data are held in the shape format used by ESRI ArcView", so either the shapefiles or the maptools packages should be able to read the polygon boundaries. Matching the polygons to the data may be more difficult. Fuller details at Statistics Norway: http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/software/pxmap/ from which Windows binaries can be downloaded.> > Does any one know if there is a way to use this information from within > R? I have been looking at > the maps package and the GRASS interface to no avail. Any help appreciated. > >-- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93 e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, F. Tusell wrote:> I have been handed a CD ROM with statistical data readable with a > program named PC-Axis. There > is the possibility of creating custom maps to display the data. > Aparently, this is handled by a program > named PX-Map. Looking in the CD ROM I see files with extension .shp > which I guess contain > information about boundaries or shapes. > > Does any one know if there is a way to use this information from within > R? I have been looking at > the maps package and the GRASS interface to no avail. Any help appreciated. > > -- > Fernando TUSELL e-mail: > Departamento de EconometrÃa y EstadÃstica etptupaf at bs.ehu.es > Facultad de CC.EE. y Empresariales Tel: (+34)94.601.3733 > Avenida Lendakari Aguirre, 83 Fax: (+34)94.601.3754 > E-48015 BILBAO (Spain) Secr: (+34)94.601.3740 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >If .shp are ESRI shape files, you can try the Rmap library. Ref: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/Software/Rmap/ and http://shapelib.maptools.org or http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/ Jean Coursol