[R] Alaska and Hawaii map data?

[Kevin Burton]

I installed 'spatial' and could not see that the package includes data to
map Alaska and Hawaii along with the associated counties .I saw in the demo
for the package 'sp' that county data was read in for the state of North
Carolina but I am unclear where the database containing this information is.
If I were to add the functionality myself I would need to start with some
sort of database that consists of polygons that describe the applicable
counties. Unfortunately I don't have that kind of time. Surely this has been
done before.

Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Brownrigg [mailto:Ray.Brownrigg at ecs.vuw.ac.nz] 
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:55 PM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Cc: Kevin Burton
Subject: Re: [R] Alaska and Hawaii map data?

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, Kevin Burton wrote:
> I can plot each county of the contiguous 48 states or all of them 
> using variations of
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> map('county', region=c('wisconsin' . . . .)
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> in the maps package. I was wondering whether similar data was 
> available for Alaska and Hawaii? I was also wondering if there was a 
> database that listed FIPS codes for the counties in Alaska and Hawaii.
Similar to 'county.fips'.
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None of these is part of the maps package.  Sorry.

The good news is that maps is a *source* package, so if you need new
functionality, you are quite at liberty to add it yourself.

Further, there are other mapping (and more general 'spatial') packages
available, that may provide such functionality.  See the CRAN spatial
taskview at:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html

Ray Brownrigg
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> Kevin Burton
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