a non-trivial R problem

[Jacek Podlewski]

Hi guys, my question is rather not from quant finance field, but I'm sure some of you have more than decent R skills and experience, so maybe someone helps me with this one: I want to draw a map of London and put some points on it based on geographical coordinates - what R package and source of data (in a suitable format) would you suggest? The map can be really simple, without any fancy effects I'm simple afraid I don't have enough time to figure all of this out fully by myself (it's an optional part of job assignment). Thanks for any help

 

[alain]

Check the googleVis package. It has maps support. It should be able to help you achieve your results.

 

[alain]

I saw the following post on r-bloggers today. It has an example of using another map package in R

http://r-nold.blogspot.com/2012/08/provincial-map-using-gadm.html

 

[Jacek Podlewski]

Thanks for your replies alain. Lots of interesting stuff can be found in the packages you mentioned

 

[physEcon]

This post might help too: http://www.r-bloggers.com/what-are-the-most-popular-bike-routes-in-london/