[R] [R-pkgs] announcing maps version 3.1.0

hapefile data (e.g. readShapePoly() from the maptools package) and pass the result to map(). FIXES: - map(...,fill=TRUE) will no longer apply thinning to the map. The thinning caused polygons to have non-matching borders. For large databases (e.g. the complete worldHires database) this may hav

[R] [R-pkgs] Major update to 'maps': v3.0.0

asic name matching now use perl-style regular expressions. This may be exploited by using regular expressions to (un)select regions in the 'map()' functions directly, e.g. map(regions="(?!Antarctica)",fill=T) The README file and NEWS.Rd contain more details and examples.