Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-11-02 Thread Markus Kainu
Dear Claudia, I have written a tutorial for this task here; http://www.markuskainu.fi/r-tutorial/eurostat/spatial.html It uses the shapefile provided by Gisco and plots data from Eurostat. Packages rgdal and maptools are used to process the data and SpatialPolygonDataFrame is fortified into data

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-11-01 Thread paladini
Hi Jean, nevertheless this page "R-bloggers" looks realy interesting so I'll work through the tutorial. Thanks again for recommanding this web-site. Best regards Claudia Zitat von "Adams, Jean" : Claudia, I have not worked through the example myself. Since you seem to be getting errors,

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-11-01 Thread paladini
Hi Jim, that works nice. Thanks again! Have a nice weekend, best regards Claudia Zitat von Jim Lemon : On 10/31/2013 03:04 AM, palad...@trustindata.de wrote: Hi Jim, thats the second time that you helped me in a short while so thanks a lot! But it seems to me quite laborious and error-pron

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-11-01 Thread paladini
Hi Jean, thanks again for your response. As I told you I did the downloads and double checked if I selected the right directory. But I noticed right now what happend: The command in the example is : eurMap <- readShapePoly(fn="NUTS_2010_60M_SH/Shape/data/NUTS_RG_60M_2010") But it should be :

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-11-01 Thread Bert Gunter
... but you may be interested in this: http://andywoodruff.com/blog/why-are-choropleth-mercator-maps-bad-because-we-said-so/ Cheers, Bert On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Adams, Jean wrote: > Claudia, > > I have not worked through the example myself. Since you seem to be getting > errors, perh

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-11-01 Thread Adams, Jean
Claudia, I have not worked through the example myself. Since you seem to be getting errors, perhaps a different example would help. Here are some more choropleth maps (although these use US states rather than European countries). http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/11/choropleth-challenge-

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-10-30 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/31/2013 03:04 AM, palad...@trustindata.de wrote: Hi Jim, thats the second time that you helped me in a short while so thanks a lot! But it seems to me quite laborious and error-prone to first select all the relevant countries in this long list and then to create a color vector. But perhaps

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-10-30 Thread paladini
Hi Jim, thats the second time that you helped me in a short while so thanks a lot! But it seems to me quite laborious and error-prone to first select all the relevant countries in this long list and then to create a color vector. But perhaps I get it all wrong. For the color vector I fi

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-10-30 Thread Adams, Jean
Claudia, You should cc r-help on all correspondence so that others can follow the thread. In the second paragraph of the link I sent you http://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/ a link is provided for the NUTS data, "The polygons for drawing the administrative boundaries wer

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Lemon
On 10/30/2013 04:02 AM, palad...@trustindata.de wrote: Hello, I would like to draw a map of Europe. Each country should be colored depending on how it scores in an index called GPIndex. Say a dark red for real bad countries a light red for those which are not so bad, light blue for the fairly goo

Re: [R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-10-29 Thread Adams, Jean
Check out this link for some examples http://www.r-bloggers.com/maps-in-r-choropleth-maps/ Jean On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:02 PM, wrote: > Hello, > I would like to draw a map of Europe. Each country should be colored > depending on how it scores in an index called GPIndex. > Say a dark red

[R] mapping data to a geographic map of Europe

2013-10-29 Thread paladini
Hello, I would like to draw a map of Europe. Each country should be colored depending on how it scores in an index called GPIndex. Say a dark red for real bad countries a light red for those which are not so bad, light blue for the fairly good ones and so on up to the really good ones in a d