Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-13 Thread mathijsdevaan
Hi Patrick, Thanks! That worked perfectly! M -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Projecting-data-on-a-world-map-using-long-lat-tp3081298p3085834.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-pro

Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-11 Thread Patrick Hausmann
Hi Mathijs, this should work: library(maptools) library(ggplot2) gpclibPermit() theme_set(theme_bw()) #setwd("C:\\foo") point to your local dir # Data: http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php world.shp <- readShapeSpatial("TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp") # check for region-id - Use "

Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-10 Thread mathijsdevaan
Thanks for the suggestions, but I am not there yet (I'm a real novice). In the code provided by Patrick (see below), I changed the shape input (from sids to world) which I downloaded here: http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php. As a result I also need to change the "CNTY_ID" and "

Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Sumner
Oh, whoops I was looking for the "vote up" button and accidentally hit "Reply All". On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:21 AM, mathijsdevaan > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a dataset (CSV) with some counts of firms located around the globe. >>

Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-10 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:21 AM, mathijsdevaan wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a dataset (CSV) with some counts of firms located around the globe. > Each count is assigned to the longitude and latitude of the specific > location. Now I want to plot these counts on a world map using dots (size of > dots

Re: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-09 Thread Greg Snow
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of mathijsdevaan > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 7:21 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat > > > Hi,

[R] Projecting data on a world map using long/lat

2010-12-09 Thread mathijsdevaan
Hi, I have a dataset (CSV) with some counts of firms located around the globe. Each count is assigned to the longitude and latitude of the specific location. Now I want to plot these counts on a world map using dots (size of dots represent the count). I have been unable to find any info on whethe