[R-sig-Geo] a world type mapping question

[Hodgess, Erin]

I'm looking there and in mapproj and tried to look at mapdata but am having trouble downloading that one.

Thanks
Erin


-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:sarah.goslee at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 5:27 PM
To: Hodgess, Erin
Cc: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] a world type mapping question

Unsurprisingly, the maps package would be a good place to start.

There have been a number of fairly recent discussions on this list and the r-help list about how to color entities according to some scheme.

Sarah

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Hodgess, Erin <HodgessE at uhd.edu> wrote:
> Dear People:
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> I have a data set with rankings for 18 different countries on several 
> different concepts.  I would like to produce a world map with colors 
> on the ones with rankings and perhaps grays on the NA countries.
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> Is there a data frame/set with a list of countries available, please?
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> Thanks,
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> Erin
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