R help - Feb 2005 - how to produce disease maps

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>>>>> "Oarabile" == Oarabile Ruth Molaodi
<oarabile at stams.strath.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:06:40 +0000 writes:
    Oarabile> how to do disease maps in R?  I want to produce
    Oarabile> disease maps (A map which shows distribution of a
    Oarabile> disease in areas of a city , country e.t.c) for
    Oarabile> the spatial geographical data I have and I'm
    Oarabile> wondering if this can be done in R. I realise that
    Oarabile> there is maps package ,mapdata and e.tc. but these
    Oarabile> do not show how.

Please study the two vignettes in the 'spdep' package.

They should put you on the right track.

Christophe
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