R help - Oct 2005 - Historical England and Wales Shape Files

Dear R-user,
I would like to apply spatial statistics on some historical data, in
particular from 1850 to 1900 by registration district of England and
Wales.
I have searched in the R-archive, but unsuccessfully.
Do you know whether R contains those shape files? Or where would be
possible to download and use in R?
Thanks in advance,
Carlo Giovanni Camarda


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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Camarda, Carlo Giovanni wrote:
> Dear R-user,
> I would like to apply spatial statistics on some historical data, in
> particular from 1850 to 1900 by registration district of England and
> Wales.
> I have searched in the R-archive, but unsuccessfully.
> Do you know whether R contains those shape files? Or where would be
> possible to download and use in R?
None of the contributed packages to R contain such shapefiles. I'm afraid 
you have to find them first yourself. From:

http://edina.ac.uk/ukborders/description/data_by_country.shtml

boundary data appear to be available for 1871, 1881, and 1911 for these
units, if you have permission to use that service.


> Thanks in advance,
> Carlo Giovanni Camarda
> 
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