Andy,

I'd suggest a Google search to find what you want if your determined to use
R (and there are packages to do mostly want you want), but R may not be the
best solution. You may want to try GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/), or
GRASS GIS (http://grass.osgeo.org/), or Qgis (http://www.qgis.org/), which
are much better suited to mapping with all the embellishments.

Regards,
Tom


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Andy Bunn <Andy.Bunn@wwu.edu> wrote:

> Hello geo folk.
>
> It has been a long time since I last looked into making a pretty map with
> R. And since I last tried map making in R it looks like there has been a
> proliferation of packages for mapping.Wow. Folks have been very busy. It's
> amazing but I confess to being a bit lost. Can somebody advise me on how
> to do the following:
>
> 1. Make a map of the political boundary of Russia in an Albers equal-area
> conic projection. Color it light grey.
> 2. Color the oceans and large water bodies light blue
> 3. Add a graticule around all four edges of the map giving lat/long labels
> every 20 degrees
> 4. Add a grid giving lat/long labels every 20 degrees
> 5. Add some points from SpatialPointsDataFrame
>
> If somebody can advise which is the best package to get going on and a
> sketch of that I can get learning again!
>
> Many thanks, Andy
>
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