You may benefit from reading this tutorial, put together by the good people
who brought us `plotKML`.
http://plotkml.r-forge.r-project.org/tutorial.php

Cheers,
Roman



On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:24 AM, EPBaron <ephraim@epbaron.com> wrote:

> Stop me if you've heard this one. I'm new to R, and I want to do something
> cool but I don't know how.
> (I know, you're all shouting 'Stop!' Luckily I can't hear you, so I'll
> continue.)
> What I'm trying to do seems simple, but I don't 'speak' R well enough to
> know how to do it. Here's the idea. I have a lot of data about companies in
> different industries, including location and revenues. I want to create a
> map showing company location. I want it to be a balloon plot with the size
> of the bubble proportional to company revenues. And I'd like to color code
> the bubbles by industry. Finally, if I could label each data point with the
> company name, that would be ideal. Here's some sample data:
> Company.Name  Industry  Revenues  Longitude  LatitudeABC Company Industry A
> 123326  51.519822   -0.087848BCD Company Industry B  47445   37.24142075
> -121.7828064CDE Company Industry C  257197  48.89798563 2.40603433DEF
> Company Industry A  418062  40.74407578 -74.00460052EFG Company Industry B
> 93900   48.93931961 2.355410099FGH Company Industry C  476525  34.050655
> -118.266068GHI Company Industry A  128891  37.379179   -121.9550711HIJ
> Company Industry B  88330   1.32118 103.6950302IJK Company Industry C
>  73932
> 43.6447601  -79.3839111JKL Company Industry A  413623  40.73675215
> -74.17335078KLM Company Industry B  123657  22.33628273 114.1868286LMN
> Company Industry C  232588  33.75854753 -84.3876446
> I've done several web searches that lead me to the theory of GIS and the
> intricacies of global coordinate systems. I've also made several trials
> using the maps, maptools, and plotKML packages, but I'm too inarticulate to
> correctly tell R what to do. Has anyone done something similar and, if so,
> could you help out a man in need? Thanks in advance!
>
>
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