[R-sig-Geo] R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 45, Issue 10

[Ken Nussear]

Did you load the library first using library(Rmap)?


Ken


On May 14, 2007, at 3:00 AM, r-sig-geo-request at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:16:22 +0200
> From: Laurence Amilhat <Laurence.Amilhat at toulouse.inra.fr>
> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] starting with Rmap
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> Hello,
>
> I am a beginner in R programming, so sorry for the low level of  
> this post...
>
> I would like to create a Europe map and plot some Informations on it,
> using lat/long coordinates.
> I've seen the Rmap project, which seems to do what I want.
> The thing is that I can't get started.
> I download the packages: maps, mapdata, spmaps, shapefiles
> I have a text file for the europe continent downloaded from the World
> data bank, but I don't know how to create a database that can be  
> used by
> Rmap.
> So I tried with shapefiles, I have a shapefile for Europe, as is it
> noticed in the tutorial http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/Software/Rmap/
> i tried:
>> europe <- shapefile("europe.shp")
> Erreur : impossible de trouver la fonction "shapefiles"
> = The function shapefile was not found.
>
> Do someone have an idea on what I am doing wrong, or know a good
> tutorial that can be helpfull for what I what to do.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Laurence Amihat
>
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