Hello, I've installed the Becker and Wilks maps, mapdata, and mapproj packages so I can begin to try these out for some work I need to do on a map of Alaska but I don't know where to find a map of Alaska. Has anyone solved this already and could help? Thanks very much in advance, Caitlin
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Caitlin Burgess wrote:> Hello, > > I've installed the Becker and Wilks maps, mapdata, and mapproj packages > so I can begin to try these out for some work I need to do on a map of > Alaska but I don't know where to find a map of Alaska. Has anyone solved > this already and could help?map("world2", "USA:alaska") gives the low resolution, using the "world" database is split on the date line. The mapdata package has better resolution.> > Thanks very much in advance, > > Caitlin > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
Look at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html There are shapefiles of the 50 states there, outlines, counties, and others. Greg Snow, Ph.D. Statistical Data Center, LDS Hospital Intermountain Health Care greg.snow at ihc.com (801) 408-8111>>> Caitlin Burgess <caitlin1 at u.washington.edu> 07/25/05 01:37PM >>>Hello, I've installed the Becker and Wilks maps, mapdata, and mapproj packages so I can begin to try these out for some work I need to do on a map of Alaska but I don't know where to find a map of Alaska. Has anyone solved this already and could help? Thanks very much in advance, Caitlin ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html