R help - Apr 2006 - Maps of Canada and some (very) simple instructions

I am a very new user of R  (ver 2.2.1 & Windows XP)  

I would like to see if I can plot some simple data
(Number of people in certain regions of Canada and
within  Ontario and Quebec.  Can anyone suggest a) a
souce of Canadian maps and b) some simple worked
examples of using maps.  At the moment I have managed
to load the map and mapdata libraries but that is
about the extend of my knowledge. 

So far I have not found anything that is as basic as I
need. I need something pretty simple.

I found a shapefile for a map of Canada at:
http://www.vdstech.com/map_data.htm you can read this in and plot it
using the maptools package (or the sp package and friends if you want
more control):
> library(maptools)
> tmp <- read.shape('c:/maps/canada')
> tmp2 <- Map2poly(tmp)
> plot(tmp2)
For adding information to the map there are some examples in the
maptools and sp packages, also look at the help files for symbols as
well as state.vbm and subplot in the TeachingDemos package.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 
 
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> I am a very new user of R  (ver 2.2.1 & Windows XP)  
> 
> I would like to see if I can plot some simple data (Number of 
> people in certain regions of Canada and within  Ontario and 
> Quebec.  Can anyone suggest a) a souce of Canadian maps and 
> b) some simple worked examples of using maps.  At the moment 
> I have managed to load the map and mapdata libraries but that 
> is about the extend of my knowledge. 
> 
> So far I have not found anything that is as basic as I need. 
> I need something pretty simple.
> 
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