[R-sig-Geo] Example country data to plot

[Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)]

It took a while to understand their data layout options, but it finally worked well. Thanks for the suggestion! 

Cheers, Bob

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Landis [mailto:landis at isciences.com]
>Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 9:36 PM
>To: Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
>Cc: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
>Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Example country data to plot
>
>Try the World Development Indicators from the World Bank.  You can download
>the whole thing as a giant CSV file without too much trouble and there are
>hundreds of variables at the national scale.
>
>Sent from my iPod -- that's why it's short and misspelled.
>
>
>On Jun 5, 2011, at 10:14 AM, "Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)" <muenchen at utk.edu
>> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm looking for a data set of miscellaneous country measures like
>> population, education, crime, etc. The particular variables aren't
>> that important. I'll use the data for maps and non-spatial plots such
>> as bar plots, scatter plots, etc. If all goes well it'll end up in a
>> book, so I either need to be able to distribute the data or (much
>> better) simply point to a data frame in an R package already on CRAN
>> if I can find one.
>>
>> The UN Data at http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx?d=UNESCO provides
>> plenty of variables that would work and it's re-distributable, but
>> each topic is in a separate file and in a slightly different format
>> making a merger a fair amount of work. Does anyone know of an existing
>> file I can use?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
>>
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