[R-sig-Geo] Global mapping of multiple categories by colour

[Rhona Govender]

Thank you for the help, everyone.
Andy, this did fix the country matching problem! Thank you very much.
I am now trying to divide the data into just 3 categories, but I will
move this over to the google group.

Cheers,

Sarah


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Andy South <southandy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>
> Thanks Roger for your comprehensive answer, I've been offline for a couple
> of days.
>
> Sarah, I think you may be very close to your first objective. Try removing
> the quotes around data3, (because data3 is an object not a string) :
>
> malMap <- joinCountryData2Map(dF = data3, joinCode = "ISO3", nameJoinColumn
> = "country")
>
>> > malMap <- joinCountryData2Map(dF = "data3", joinCode = "ISO3",
>> > nameJoinColumn = "country")
>> >
>> > # This will join your malDF data.frame to the country map data
>> >
>> > mapCountryData(malMap, nameColumnToPlot="hdi", catMethod =
>> > "categorical", missingCountryCol = gray(.8))
>> >
>> > head(data3)
>> >
>> > country   hdi
>> >              0
>> >              0
>> >              0
>> >  ASM     0.827
>> >              0
>> >              0
>> >
>> > Firstly I get this error as it won't match the country names up:
>> >
>> > "Error in joinCountryData2Map(dF = "data3", joinCode = "ISO3",
>> > nameJoinColumn = "country") :  your chosen nameJoinColumn :'country'
>> > seems not to exist in your data, columns ="
>
>> > Also, is it possible to manually make
>> > the small island nations bigger as they will not appear at this scale.
>
> Let's walk before we try running, however that should be possible using
> mapBubbles([some stuff],add=TRUE)
> after you've created your initial map.
>
> To get a more rapid response from me & other rworldmap users, & search more
> targeted information you can join the nascent rworldmap google group :
> http://groups.google.com/group/rworldmap
> (not much on it yet but it's a start).
>
> Good luck,
> Andy
>
>
>> > I'm sorry this is so long. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Sarah
>> >
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