On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, David Winsemius wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> > I am using "maps". I am running the following code to get this list of
> > all the counties:
> >
> > map('county', plot=FALSE)$names
> >
> > In the output, all counties have first the state listed and then,
> > after a comma, the name of the county.
> >
> > However, county # 2395 (State = south dakota) has no county name.
> > Anyone knows what this county is?
>
If you want a name, use Washabaugh. It's a remnant of that county's merge with
Jackson
County. At the time I didn't care to go through renumbering all the remaining
counties.
The next version of maps will have this fixed.
Ray Brownrigg
> This question would seem more appropriate for greater efforts on your
> part:
>
> http://southdakota.hometownlocator.com/counties/
>
> (That was the second hit on a google search: counties of south dakota )
>
> After:
> conames <- scan(what="character")
> <and pasting in the selected text>
> conames <- c("Aurora", "Beadle", "Bennett", "Bon Homme", "Brookings",
> "Brown", "Brule", "Buffalo", "Butte", "Campbell", "Charles Mix",
> "Clark", "Clay", "Codington", "Corson", "Custer", "Davison",
> "Day", "Deuel", "Dewey", "Douglas", "Edmunds", "Fall River",
> "Faulk", "Grant", "Gregory", "Haakon", "Hamlin", "Hand", "Hanson",
> "Harding", "Hughes", "Hutchinson", "Hyde", "Jackson", "Jerauld",
> "Jones", "Kingsbury", "Lake", "Lawrence", "Lincoln", "Lyman",
> "Marshall", "McCook", "McPherson", "Meade", "Mellette", "Miner",
> "Minnehaha", "Moody", "Pennington", "Perkins", "Potter", "Roberts",
> "Sanborn", "Shannon", "Spink", "Stanley", "Sully", "Todd", "Tripp",
> "Turner", "Union", "Walworth", "Yankton", "Ziebach")
>
> Note: there are three names with spaces that I joined:
> > length(conames)
>
> [1] 66
>
> > length(map('county', 'south dakota', plot=FALSE)$names)
>
> [1] 67
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+counties+in+south+dakota&ie=utf-8&;
> oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
>
> (Wikipedia confirms there are 66 counties in SD.)
>
> So the answer is apparently ... it's NOT a county. Furthermore efforts
>
> to plot it fail with an error about faulty settings:
> > map('county', 'south dakota', exact=TRUE)
>
> Error in par(usr = usr) :
> invalid value specified for graphical parameter "usr"
>
> So it's some sort of blank entry in that 'map' database.
>
> > str(map('county', 'south dakota', exact=TRUE, plot=FALSE)[[1]])
>
> num [1:2] -101 -101
>
> str(map('county', 'south dakota,aurora', exact=TRUE, plot=FALSE)[[1]])
> num [1:20] -98.3 -98.3 NA -98.7 -98.3 ...
>
> I do not see any other blank county listings in 'new jersey' or 'north
> dakota'.
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