Your shapefile should include specifications for its coordinate system.
Look for a file names maryland.prj in the same directory as maryland.shp.
And that coordinate system should be included in your 'border' object. You
might need to change to using readOGR() to load the shapefile into R. Use
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:26 AM, L S wrote:
> I realized that the coordinates are completely different. The coordinates
> in my data file (i.e. my csv file) are traditional GPS coordinates (e.g. 39.17
> or 76.37). The shapefile however has x,y values such as 1416813.54262877
> or 561125.5466027
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