[R] maps in R for Windows

[RINNER Heinrich]

I am using R1.2.0 on Windows NT4.0 and am looking for information on drawing
geographical maps.
[The things I'd like to do at the moment are rather simple, just like
plotting the values of some variable (e.g. a SMR) on a given map.]

Searching the r-help mailing list archives, it seems this topic comes up
from time to time. For example, in November 1999 Ray Brownrigg writes about
an "R maps package" (but for Linux only), and in October 2000 Ross Ihaka
tells about work on "getting the Becker-Wilks Maps in S code working in R"
and "putting together an R library for reading, writing, plotting and
manipulating shapefiles".

So my question is, what kind of stuff (if any) is currently available for a
Windows user? (Looking on CRAN, I couldn't find anything.)

Heinrich.

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