On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Wang, Kevin (SYD) <kevinw...@kpmg.com.au> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to draw a bubble plot over a map -- where the map shows local > government areas (LGA) in Australia (or other structures under the Australian > Standard Geographical Classification), but am not sure where I can find the > data to plot such maps (e.g. draw the state of Northern Territory but also > showing LGA divisions). > > Any help will be greatly appreciated, apologies if this is a simple question > -- this is the first time I'm trying to draw a map in R :). >
A second's googling leads me to an aussie gov site with downloadable shapefiles: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/a...@.nsf/DetailsPage/1259.0.30.001July%202010?OpenDocument shapefiles can be read in R using the rgdal package. Get that, get 'sp', get 'maptools' - get mapping! Any other problems, head over to the r-sig-geo mailing list! Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
