[R] Mapping (followup) + package installation

[Brian Scholl]

Hi,

I'm looking to create a few basic world maps in R (for
Windows).  A while back someone asked for the same
thing and was referred to the (*.tar) files at:
ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/pub/statistics/map/ 
which I downloaded.  

However, I am unable to install them, and clearly I'm
not doing something properly (I'm your basic moron
when it comes to installation, so please understand).
>From what I can find, the FAQ stuff on the web site
relating to this doesn't seem to be relevant for
windows.  Anyhow, I used the drop down menu to load
from a local zip file, it says it installs fine and
updates html documentation, etc.  But subsequently, it
isn't listed on the list of packages and nothing has
changed on the html help file.  Is there something I
need to do to the downloads before they'll load (I had
this problem with other packages that I was ultimately
able to install successfully directly from CRAN)?  

Also, are each of the files in the above directory
part of the package, are they separate packages, etc. 
(the readme says some are unix, etc, but there are a
bunch of files).  

Another question is on the Maps package itself. 
Someone posted message a while back indicating that
the maps package is only available on unix.  Is this
accurate, or is there any more recent information? It
wasn't clear to me if they were talking about the
packages located at the site above or something else.

Thanks for your patience and help,

Brian

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