R help - Jun 2014 - Mapping

Hey Folks,

Apologies in advance if this has been covered.

I'm taking on a simple mapping project. What packages, tutorials and
examples would you recommend for a beginning mapper in R?

Thanks, Tom





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What type of mapping?

Do you want to add points to an existing map?  Color in polygons of a
downloaded map?  Create a completely new map? other?

our advice to you depends on what you want to do.

Also please read the posting guide linked to at the bottom of all
emails and don't post in HTML, this is a plain text list.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Tom Detzel <Tom.Detzel at propublica.org>
wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> Apologies in advance if this has been covered.
>
> I'm taking on a simple mapping project. What packages, tutorials and
examples would you recommend for a beginning mapper in R?
>
> Thanks, Tom
>
>
>
>
>
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Tom Detzel <Tom.Detzel <at> propublica.org> writes:
> 
> Hey Folks,
> 
> Apologies in advance if this has been covered.
> 
> I'm taking on a simple mapping project. What packages, tutorials and
> examples would you recommend for a
> beginning mapper in R?
The general advice is to look for CRAN Task Views, and in your case the
Spatial one is probably the most helpful, as it gives a dense overview to
start from. Also look at the R-bloggers aggregation service, for example
blogs by Oscar Perpig??n or James Cheshire, and others. The examples will
vary a lot depending on your application area.

Roger
> 
> Thanks, Tom
>