Oh this is excellent, Thanks!
Adrienne

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ista Zahn <izahn@psych.rochester.edu>wrote:

> Hi Adrienne,
> I think
>
> usamap + xlim(c(-85, -75)) + ylim(c(33,37))
>
> will do what you want.
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Adrienne Wootten <amwootte@ncsu.edu>
> wrote:
> > To all,
> >
> > I'm working with code below to produce a map with station data plotted in
> > points, but right now I'm having trouble with the mapping portion of this
> > code
> >
> >
> > states <- data.frame(map("state", plot=FALSE,xlim=
> > c(-85,-75),ylim=c(33,37))[c("x","y")])
> > usamap<- ggplot(states)+geom_path(aes(x,y))
> > usamap
> >
> > When I plot this the problem is that the bounds of the plot is from 31N
> to
> > 38N and 90W to 75W.  The problem is that I only need the bounds of the
> plot
> > to be from 33N to 37N and 85W to 75W.  The way this is now, if I try to
> > subset the states object, I get a garbled mess of lines.  The rest of the
> > code provides what I'm trying to do with the attached data.
> >
> >
> > usamap + geom_point(data=obsmeans,aes(x=lon,y=lat,colour =
> month_1),size=5)
> > +
> >
> scale_colour_gradientn(data=obsmeans,colour=rev(rainbow(17)),breaks=seq(5,21,by=1),limits=c(5,21))
> >
> >
> > Any ideas for how I can fix this map would be appreciated!
> >
> > Adrienne
> >
> > --
> > Adrienne Wootten
> > Graduate Research Assistant
> > State Climate Office of North Carolina
> > Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
> > North Carolina State University
> >
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>
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> Ista Zahn
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Adrienne Wootten
Graduate Research Assistant
State Climate Office of North Carolina
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University

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