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Re: map projections

To: Lisa Crozier <s-news-owner+M10447=rab=research.att.com@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>, s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
Subject: Re: map projections
From: "Richard A. Becker" <rab@research.att.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
Another place to find the "Maps in S" document (and also
"Constructing a Geographical Database") is

     http://www.research.att.com/~rab/geo.html.

  Rick Becker

> I am trying to figure out what projections S+ supports for geographic maps 
> (the map() function) in the spatial module.  In the help section it only 
> says that you have to look in the Appendix of a reference volume, but my 
> library does not have this book (Becker, R.A. and Wilks, A.R. 1991.  Maps 
> in S.  AT&T Bell Laboratories Statistics Research Report), nor is it 
> available on from the Bell labs reference page 
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/doc/visual.html.  Can someone 
> tell me what projections are covered and how I use them?
> many thanks,
> Lisa Crozier

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