Hi Ray, 2012/7/31 Ray Brownrigg <ray.brownr...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz>: > On 07/28/12 23:46, Thomas Steiner wrote: >> Hi, >> I'd like to have a low resolution word map in R. >> The "maps" package has this option, but if I use the argument, the map >> looses sense: Russia and Australia get empty etc >> >> library("maps") >> m=map(col="skyblue",fill=TRUE,plot=TRUE,resolution=10) >> length(m$x) >> >> If I drop the "fill=TRUE", the effect of "resolutaion=10000" is lost, > > I don't know why this is so, I hadn't realised that effect of resolution > with fill=TRUE.
I don't understand either, but I left this observation to the developpers ;-) > >> ie no change. Is there any other package or could I use the resolution >> argument differently? > > Well, you could say: > m=map(col=0,fill=TRUE, resolution=10) > > Is that what you want? no, if you look at the output (ie the map) you know why: little islands like hawaii do still exist, but brazil is a rectangle of say 8 points... > > Ray > >> Thanks, >> Thomas >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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.