Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map

2012-08-07 Thread Lopez, Dan
: Sarah Goslee; R help (r-help@r-project.org) Subject: Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map Dan, google refine http://goo.gl/AeKml can actually transform zip codes into longitude/latitude - http://goo.gl/1HDWb will show you how to do this from street adresses, but it should also work from

Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map

2012-08-06 Thread Ricardo Pietrobon
mechanism On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Lopez, Dan lopez...@llnl.gov wrote: Thank you! Dan From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:sarah.gos...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:51 PM To: Lopez, Dan Cc: R help (r-help@r-project.org) Subject: Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map

Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map

2012-08-03 Thread Lopez, Dan
Thank you! Dan From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:sarah.gos...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:51 PM To: Lopez, Dan Cc: R help (r-help@r-project.org) Subject: Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map Hi Dan, For question 1, yes you'll need geographic coordinates. I thinknit's

[R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map

2012-08-02 Thread Lopez, Dan
Hi, QUESTION TOPIC #1 I have some data I want to plot on a map. But what I have are home addresses: street, City, State, complete postal code--i.e 95377-1234. Is there a way to plot this data or do I need latitudinal and longitude coordinates? If so how do I convert them? Is there a package

Re: [R] Plotting Where People Live on a U.S. Map

2012-08-02 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi Dan, For question 1, yes you'll need geographic coordinates. I thinknit's possible to get a shapefile of zip codes, but maybe someone else will know the details. For #2, you probably want maps instead of map, and you need to load a package before you can use it: install.packages(maps)