[R] CRAN + geography = Cranography

Barry Rowlingson b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Thu Jul 30 18:39:01 CEST 2009


In response to an earlier discussion about finding the
fastest/best/nearest CRAN site, I geocoded (using my geonames package)
the locations of the CRAN sites returned by getCRANmirrors. I've
mapped them here:

http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/R/Cranography/

The geocoding may have got it wrong, so if CRAN site maintainers want
to send me a real lat-long (in WGS 84 aka EPSG:4326) I'll update my
map. Maybe eventually lat-long can go in the CRAN csv file distributed
with R.

Note this is just for fun. No warranties. Maybe I should use a little
'R' as a marker. Maybe I should get a life.

Barry




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