You can still use the functions, just that if you get stuck, don't go to
Insightful for help.
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:32, Park, Richard wrote:
> 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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