[R] alaska map? - answers

[Caitlin Burgess]

Thanks very much to Roger Bivand and Greg Snow who wrote, respectively:

>map("world2", "USA:alaska")
>
>
>gives the low resolution, using the "world" database is split on the date
>line. The mapdata package has better resolution.


and


>Look at:
>
>http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html
>
>There are shapefiles of the 50 states there, outlines, counties, and
>others.






> On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Caitlin Burgess wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've installed the Becker and Wilks maps, mapdata, and mapproj packages
>> so I can begin
>> to try these out for some work I need to do on a map of
>> Alaska but I don't know where to find a map of Alaska. Has anyone solved
>> this already and could help?
>>
>> Thanks very much in advance,
>>
>> Caitlin
>>
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