[R-sig-Geo] Which are the most suitable, elegant or efficient packages for geographical maps in R? Which did you use yourself?

[Sarah Goslee]

HI Markus,

That's... rather broad.

I'd suggest installing the Spatial taskview, reading about what's
available as part of that collection at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html and then thinking
about what you are trying to accomplish.

Surely a more focused answer would be more useful than having everyone
list all the packages they use, as well as requiring less time from
the list members.

Sarah


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Markus Jenning <markus.jenning at web.de> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I remember some very interesting and professional-looking R projects that
> somehow involved geographical maps.
> Now that I'd like to work with maps myself, let me ask you this question:
> Which of the packages that are currently available would you think are the
> most elegant and useful for an R project that use maps?
> Which packages (other than the "maps" package) did you use in your own
> projects and why?
> Are there any packages that are not available on CRAN (or in some way hard
> to find) but that still deserve recognition?
>
> Thanks for your help, and feel free to redirect me to a more suitable thread
> or even another group if you feel that this question could better be asked
> elsewhere.
>
> Cheers,
> Markus
>

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