where do you go if you get this message?
> library(maps)
Warning messages:
The functions and datasets in library section maps are not supported by
Insightful. in: library(maps)
>
thanks,
Richard Park
-----Original Message-----
From: Ernst Linder [mailto:elinder@cisunix.unh.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:22 PM
To: Park, Richard
Subject: Re: [S] map function
If you load the library maps these functions should be available.
library(maps)
Ernst.
Park, Richard wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have been looking into finding the corresponding data base for this "map"
> function and how to implement the data into s-plus. It says that this
> function is not normally distributed w/ the standard s-plus. Does anyone know
> where to get this data and the corresponding function to implement it? I
> would like to create a world map following genetic distributions of certain
> genes.
>
> thanks,
> Richard Park
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> S-Plus function:
> World World Map
>
> USAGE
> map('world')
> map('world.thin')
>
> This world database comes from a cleaned-up version of the
> CIA World Data Bank II data and contains approximately 2 million
> points representing the world coastlines and national boundaries.
> This makes it suitable for extracting countries, continents, etc
> while still retaining lots of detail.
> This size also makes the world database unsuitable for drawing
> maps of the entire world; for this purpose, use the world.thin database.
>
>
> The world database is not shipped with the standard S distribution
> because it requires lots of disk space (75Mb or so of working
> space and 15+ megabytes to store). The database, along with installation
> instructions, can be obtained in a highly-compressed 5Mb from
> from the statlib file server (lib.stat.cmu.edu) by ftp.
>
>
> WARNING
> Do not try to execute map("world"); it will expand the S process to many
> megabytes and may crash your machine.
>
>
> SEE ALSO
> map.
>
> EXAMPLES
>
> map('world.thin', fill=T, col=1:10)
> map('world', 'Switzerland')
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