[R-sig-Geo] Very basic figure question

[Paul Hiemstra]

Rob Forsyth wrote:
> A complete geo-tyro demonstrating ignorance here: please be tolerant!
>
> I have a large dataset comprising the results of a questionnaire from 
> UK respondents. I am interested in geographic variation in responses 
> and have built mixed-effect models incorporating County/Unitary 
> Authority/Local Authority (a level of local government in the UK) as a 
> factor-level random effect in lme4. Extracting the intercept of the 
> random effects I can generate a normalised 0-1 score for each local 
> authority. I would like to illustrate the results of this analysis and 
> generate a map showing LAs coloured using this normalised score to set 
> gray scale.
>
> We have campus access to ArcGIS and related programmes but I have no 
> knowledge of these whatsoever and wondered if for this limited task I 
> could work within R?
I would rather say that for this limited problem you could use ArcGIS 
:), for more complex ones use R ;).

cheers,
Paul
> Are there any suitable public domain map objects and how would I go 
> about this?
>
> Thank you
>
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