Figure 13.10 in "Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R" might give you some ideas http://lmdvr.r-forge.r-project.org/figures/figures.html
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.ise...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All, > I would like to do the following: make a plot of the world and color a few > selected states. > Some states have an associated scalar (i.e a simple number) and I would like > to paint them using a heat map and show legend for the color map in the plot. > One or two states do not have any number associated to them and are simply > colored/filled according to a distinctive pattern that I choose. > To fix the ideas, imagine the following situation in which > > (1) the US are striped (or filled with any pattern not in the heat map) and > no number is associated to them; > (2) China, France and UK have associated values 54, 32 and 14 and I would > like to "paint" them according to a heat map. > (3) The other states can be left blank, or I can pretend that there is a > "zero" associated to them. > > I made some attempts with map(world), but so far I have been banging my head > against the wall. > Any suggestion is appreciated. > Cheers > > Lorenzo > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
