[R] USA map

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 kjetil at entelnet.bo wrote:

> On 3 Nov 2003 at 15:04, apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I believe in R you need
> > 
> > library(maps)
> > 
> > before using usa().  Of course, the library has to be installed first.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I new that. When I did help.search("usa") I HAD maps
> attached. It dosen't have any function usa(). R is more international 
> minded:
> 
> > library(maps)
> > usa()
> Error: couldn't find function "usa"
> > map('usa')
> > 
> map('china')
> map('bolivia')
> 
> and so on also works!

You need library(mapdata) for those.

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