state.vbm
From maptools v0.9-9
by Roger Bivand
US State Visibility Based Map
A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object (for use with the maptools package) to plot a Visibility Based Map.
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Usage
data(state.vbm)
Details
A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object (for use with the maptools package) to plot a map of the US states where the sizes of the states have been adjusted to be more equal.
This map can be useful for plotting state data using colors patterns without the larger states dominating and the smallest states being lost.
The original map is copyrighted by Mark Monmonier. Official publications based on this map should acknowledge him. Comercial publications of maps based on this probably need permission from him to use.
References
http://www.markmonmonier.com/index.htm, http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/bright-ideas.html
Examples
# NOT RUN {
data(state.vbm)
plot(state.vbm)
tmp <- state.x77[,'HS Grad']
tmp2 <- cut(tmp, seq(min(tmp),max(tmp), length.out=11),
include.lowest=TRUE)
plot(state.vbm,col=cm.colors(10)[tmp2])
# }
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