My new task (which I have not investigated yet) is to see if facilities
exist in R to turn the X11 device into an HTML document with an
html-map or into a PDF with hyperlinks.
To create an HTML imagemap, see B. Rowlingson's imagemap package at:
I have had success by downloading the zipcode (approximate) shapefiles
(the .shp files) from: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/z52000.html
Then using the maptools package (rather than the maps package).
hope this helps,
Greg Snow, Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center, LDS Hospital
Intermountain
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Subject: Re: [R] us zipcode data map
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:17:53 -0700
On 6/12/05, Francisco J. Zagmutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that I am aware of. Try library(help=maps) for a list of all the
functions in the library. Anyhow, I am not sure that a US map with
zipcodes
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To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] us zipcode data map
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:06:39 -0700
On 6/10/05, Francisco J. Zagmutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
library(maps)
example(match.map) #for coloring
If you want to annotate the map look at ?map.text
thanks
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Mike R wrote:
i've search the email archives, searched the documention
of various map packages and done an R-site search, but
have been unable to find direct resources for creating maps
of the US that are colored or annotated or ... by zipcode
data.
For example,
i've search the email archives, searched the documention
of various map packages and done an R-site search, but
have been unable to find direct resources for creating maps
of the US that are colored or annotated or ... by zipcode
data.
For example, create a map of the US and color each
library(maps)
example(match.map) #for coloring
If you want to annotate the map look at ?map.text
I hope this helps
Francisco
From: Mike R [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] us zipcode data map
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:18:26 -0700
On 6/10/05, Francisco J. Zagmutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
library(maps)
example(match.map) #for coloring
If you want to annotate the map look at ?map.text
thanks Francisco, correct me if i am wrong, but maps_2.0-27.tar.gz
does many many maps, but not any zipcode maps ?
i've found a 3-column text file of zip, long, lat
from the 2000 US census, so i am part way there.
http://www.cryptnet.net/fsp/zipdy/
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PLEASE do read the posting
i'm likely looking for something that does not exist:
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/tigerfaq?Q16
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Note that the task of creating a lat/long or polygon file of all ZIP Codes is
not as easy as it seems since ZIP Codes are not designed to be polygons and
can't easily be forced
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