> I've reviewed the "map" documentation I've found so far with
> S-Plus 6.2 and R including "www.r-project.org" -> search -> "R site
> search" -> "world map" and Becker & Wilkes (1993) "Maps in S" cited in
> the "map" documentation. I've noticed that, for example,
> 'library(maps); map("world", "UK:Bermuda")' produces an 83-point
> polygon sketch in S-Plus 6.2 but only a degenerate 3-point polygon (with
> the third point = the first) in R 1.8.1.
>
You need the mapdata package. The default "world" database in S-Plus is
the high-resolution one (with also "world.thin"). In R the high
resolution one is "worldHires" from mapdata (mainly so that the
standard maps package is a manageable size).
Ray Brownrigg
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