I installed 'spatial' and could not see that the package includes data to map Alaska and Hawaii along with the associated counties .I saw in the demo for the package 'sp' that county data was read in for the state of North Carolina but I am unclear where the database containing this information is. If I were to add the functionality myself I would need to start with some sort of database that consists of polygons that describe the applicable counties. Unfortunately I don't have that kind of time. Surely this has been done before.
Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Ray Brownrigg [mailto:ray.brownr...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:55 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Kevin Burton Subject: Re: [R] Alaska and Hawaii map data? On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, Kevin Burton wrote: > I can plot each county of the contiguous 48 states or all of them > using variations of > > > > map('county', region=c('wisconsin' . . . .) > > > > in the maps package. I was wondering whether similar data was > available for Alaska and Hawaii? I was also wondering if there was a > database that listed FIPS codes for the counties in Alaska and Hawaii. Similar to 'county.fips'. > None of these is part of the maps package. Sorry. The good news is that maps is a *source* package, so if you need new functionality, you are quite at liberty to add it yourself. Further, there are other mapping (and more general 'spatial') packages available, that may provide such functionality. See the CRAN spatial taskview at: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html Ray Brownrigg > > > Thank you. > > > > Kevin Burton > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
