[R] maps in R for Windows

[Ross Ihaka]

RINNER Heinrich wrote:

> Searching the r-help mailing list archives, it seems this topic comes up
> from time to time. For example, in November 1999 Ray Brownrigg writes about
> an "R maps package" (but for Linux only), and in October 2000 Ross Ihaka
> tells about work on "getting the Becker-Wilks Maps in S code working in R"
> and "putting together an R library for reading, writing, plotting and
> manipulating shapefiles".

Just to update this.  The work is still progressing (a masters student
of
mine doing the job).  We have decided to throw away the projections
code in Becker & Wilks and switch to PROJ4 (a change made possible by
recent memory management work by Luke Tierney).  I can't give a time
frame
on this because it is (partially) out of my hands.

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