> My question then is, how to compute a similar procedure using the 'world' > database. Specifically, how can I access the country names in the 'world' > database to accomplish the translation to the country names in my dataset? > Is there any way to unpack the 'world' database to do the matching in an > external program? And does anybody now of other (more recent) world maps > that I could use? > The short answer is that the file world.N in .../library/maps/mapdata/ contains the mapping from polygon numbers to names.
I think the only other thing you need to know is that the colours are allocated sequentially in increasing numerical order of polygon number. Ray Brownrigg ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
