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dear R-tists, i want to graph information for the German Federal States (Bundeslaender) using the maps package. unfortunately there is no maps for the German Bundeslaender. does anyone have an idea / a source where to get map data that can be used in the maps package that graphs structures below the country level. in the long run it would also be interesting to integrate Swiss Cantons and

Hi! I have no idea if this is maybe an easy task utilizing R since I read there is geographical map data in some package: I have a huge number of geographical points with their coordinates in Germany. Now I want to determine for each point in which "Bundesland" = state it is located. Can anybody tell me if this is doable relatively easy in R and if so give me some hints or links

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.

Dear R-listers, I am using R for Windows Vista 64-bit. I have no experience working with maps, but now I have to plot a map of Denmark in which each Danish county is color-coded according to its incidence rate of a particular disease. My problem is that I don't know where to start. I have read the help files to packages like 'mapplot', and their examples indicate that I am on the

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