germany.data: Meta-data About Administrative Districts of Germany
Description
Supplementary data used for the display of data
from the administrative districts of Germany
Arguments
Format
germany.info is a list with elements
n
544 (number of districts around 1990).
xrep,yrep
representative coordinates of the districts (vectors
of length 544)
xlim,ylim
2-vectors defining the limits of the districts.
polyid
linking the polygons to the districts (599 vector).
id
linking the districts to Community Identification Number.
germany.poly defines the polygons. It is a 17965 by two matrix,
each polygon separated by a row of NAs, each district by two rows. germany defines the polygons in form of a list (backwards compatibility).
Author
Reinhard Furrer
Details
The representative coordinates are calculated based on the mean
value of the polygon coordinates. This creates sometimes strange
values, e.g., district Leer.
References
The meta-data has been constructed based on (essentially)
files from the package INLA, see demo(Bym).