Changing the color of the borders is what the border argument to polygon() would do, if only it hadn't been overridden.
So no, you can't easily change the line color. It would be an easy tweak to the code to add a polyborder argument that is passed to polygon() as border, though. That would solve both your problems. Sarah On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> But the help does say that additional arguments are passed to lines(), >> so you can use lty=0. >> >> That can leave white bits between counties if the areas don't line up >> precisely, so I think it looks better with the lines in black. > > I agree, indeed it leaves white bits. Of course, I could try to change > the type of the lines using lty... > Sorry for one more question: can one change the color of these lines > (borders between counties) from black? > Thank you! > D. > > >> >> Sarah >> >>> Thank you! >>> Dimitri >>> >>> ### My criterion for all counties.: >>> allcounties<-data.frame(county=map('county', plot=FALSE)$names) >>> allcounties$group<-c(rep(1:6,513),rep(1,4))[order(c(rep(1:6,513),rep(1,4)))] >>> ### My colors: >>> classcolors <- rainbow(6) >>> map('county',fill=TRUE,col=classcolors[allcounties$group]) >>> map('state', lwd=2, add=TRUE) >>> >>> >>> >>>> Sure. Just start with >>>> map('county') >>>> instead. >>>> I like to add something like: >>>> map('state', lwd=3, add=TRUE) >>> >>> I am trying: >>> ### My criterion for all counties in the US: >>> allcounties<-data.frame(county=map('county', plot=FALSE)$names) >>> allcounties$group<-sample(1:5,3082,replace=TRUE) >>> ### My colors: >>> classcolors <- rainbow(5) >>> ### Trying to build the map - not working: >>> map(database='usa',regions='county',fill=TRUE,col=classcolors[allcounties$group]) >>> >>> >>> >>>> You'll need to instead coordinate with the names of the entire US: >>>>> length(map('county', plot=FALSE)$names) >>>> [1] 3082 >>>> >>>> Sarah >>>> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.