Dear Claudia,

I have written a tutorial for this task here;

http://www.markuskainu.fi/r-tutorial/eurostat/spatial.html

It uses the shapefile provided by Gisco and plots data from Eurostat.
Packages rgdal and maptools are used to process the data and
SpatialPolygonDataFrame is fortified into data.frame and plotted using
ggplot2-package. Smaterpoland-package is used to access Eurostat data.

Best,
Markus Kainu


2013/11/1 <paladini@trustindata.de>

> Hi Jean,
> nevertheless this page "R-bloggers" looks realy interesting so I'll work
> through the tutorial.
> Thanks again for recommanding this web-site.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Claudia
>
>
> Zitat von "Adams, Jean" <jvadams@usgs.gov>:
>
>  Claudia,
>>
>> I have not worked through the example myself.  Since you seem to be
>> getting
>> errors, perhaps a different example would help.  Here are some more
>> choropleth maps (although these use US states rather than European
>> countries).
>>
>> http://blog.**revolutionanalytics.com/2009/**11/choropleth-challenge-**
>> result.html<http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/11/choropleth-challenge-result.html>
>>
>> Jean
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:04 PM, <paladini@trustindata.de> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Jean,
>>> thanks again for your response. As I told you  I did the downloads and
>>> double checked if I selected the right directory.
>>> But I noticed right now what happend:
>>> The command in the example is :
>>>
>>> eurMap <- readShapePoly(fn="NUTS_2010_****60M_SH/Shape/data/NUTS_RG_60M_
>>> ****
>>> 2010")
>>>
>>> But it should be :
>>> eurMap <- readShapePoly(fn="NUTS_2010_****60M_SH/data/ggg/NUTS_RG_60M_**
>>> 2010")
>>>
>>> Because if you do the downloads and unzip these data there is no such
>>> think as a "Shape" directory.
>>>
>>> Now eurMap <- readShapePoly(fn="NUTS_2010_****
>>> 60M_SH/data/NUTS_RG_60M_2010")
>>> works.
>>>
>>>
>>> What happens now is that after typing:
>>> eurEduMapDf <- merge(eurMapDf, eurEdu, by.x="id", by.y="GEO")
>>> I get another error message because "eurMapDf" is unknown.
>>>
>>> So I supposed it should be:
>>> eurEduMapDf <- merge(eurMap, eurEdu, by.x="id", by.y="GEO")
>>>
>>> But this doesn't work either.The error message this time is: undefined
>>> column selected.
>>>
>>> Did I do something wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Claudia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Zitat von "Adams, Jean" <jvadams@usgs.gov>:
>>>
>>>  Claudia,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> You should cc r-help on all correspondence so that others can follow the
>>>> thread.
>>>>
>>>> In the second paragraph of the link I sent you
>>>>      http://www.r-bloggers.com/****maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/<http://www.r-bloggers.com/**maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/>
>>>> <htt**p://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-**in-r-choropleth-maps/<http://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/>
>>>> >
>>>> a link is provided for the NUTS data,
>>>>      "The polygons for drawing the administrative boundaries were
>>>> obtained
>>>> from this link. In particular, the NUTS 2010 shapefile in the 1:60
>>>> million
>>>> scale was downloaded and used. The other available scales would allow
>>>> the
>>>> drawing of better defined maps, but at a computational cost. The zipped
>>>> file has to be extracted in a folder of choice for using it later."
>>>>
>>>> http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.****eu/portal/page/portal/gisco_****
>>>> Geographical_information_maps/****popups/references/****
>>>> administrative_units_
>>>> **statistical_units_1<http://**epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/**
>>>> portal/page/portal/gisco_**Geographical_information_maps/**
>>>> popups/references/**administrative_units_**statistical_units_1<http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco_Geographical_information_maps/popups/references/administrative_units_statistical_units_1>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> If you want to follow the example, you will need to download this data
>>>> to
>>>> your computer and then make sure that you refer to the appropriate
>>>> directory when using the readShapePoly() function.
>>>>
>>>> Jean
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, <paladini@trustindata.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi Jean,
>>>>
>>>>> thank you for your advice.
>>>>> The page looks quite interesting and I tried the example in  GNU R. I
>>>>> did
>>>>> all the downloads.
>>>>> But
>>>>> Just in the beginnig after typing
>>>>>
>>>>> eurMap <- readShapePoly(fn="NUTS_2010_******60M_SH/Shape/data/NUTS_RG_
>>>>> **60M_
>>>>> ****
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010")
>>>>> I get the following error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : Error opening SHP file
>>>>>
>>>>> To you have an idea what I did wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot and best regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Claudia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von "Adams, Jean" <jvadams@usgs.gov>:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Check out this link for some examples
>>>>>
>>>>>      http://www.r-bloggers.com/******maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/<http://www.r-bloggers.com/****maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/>
>>>>>> <htt**p://www.r-bloggers.com/**maps-**in-r-choropleth-maps/<http://www.r-bloggers.com/**maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> <htt**p://www.r-bloggers.com/**maps-**in-r-choropleth-maps/<http://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-**in-r-choropleth-maps/>
>>>>>> <h**ttp://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-**in-r-choropleth-maps/<http://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jean
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:02 PM, <paladini@trustindata.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I would like to draw a map of Europe. Each country should be colored
>>>>>>> depending on how it scores in an index called GPIndex.
>>>>>>> Say a dark red for real bad countries a light red for those which are
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> so bad, light blue for the fairly good ones and so on up to the
>>>>>>> really
>>>>>>> good
>>>>>>> ones in a dark blue.
>>>>>>> I never worked with geographic maps before so I tried library maps
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>>> didn't get far,- especially because all examples I found only seem to
>>>>>>> work
>>>>>>> for the United states. So I'm a bit lost.
>>>>>>> I would be nice if somebody could help me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanking you in anticipation!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Claudia
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