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...the Federal Reserve statistics website and graph it, using the following: #This downloads the data from the Fed website download.file("http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/data/Business_day/H15_ED_M1.txt","Eurodollar_deposits1M.dat") #This reads that data into a table data_download=read.table("Eurodollar_deposits1M.dat",skip=8,sep=",",head=T) #This is attempting to get R to read the date column, which is in "mm/dd/yyyy" format #I have restricted it to the first 50 data points (to keep it simple) date_vec = as.Date(data_download[1:50,1],"%...

Hi all, who knows how to get an ESRI Shapefile for the NUTS-2 Regions of the enlarged European Union? Particularly I want to draw maps of Germany, Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary and Austria. I've found Shapefiles for the US, Russia and other countries elsewhere in the web, but for Europe it seems really difficult. With many thanks for any hint Albrecht

Dear helpeRs, I'm working with the map-package and came upon a problem which I couldn't solve. I hope onee of you can. If not, this can be seen as a suggestion for new versions of the package. I'm trying to create a map of some European countries, filled with colors corresponding to some values. Let's say I have the following countries and I assign the following colors