[R] Is there a join() function in R ? OR: simulating "Combining ggplot2 and Google Maps" by David Kahle

[Michael Bedward]

Hi Christiaan,

That looks like the join function in the plyr package.

Michael

On 16 December 2010 22:06, christiaan pauw <cjpauw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> Im on R version 2.11.1  on Mac OS X
>
> I am working through David Kahle's example of using ggplot2 with Rgooglemaps
> (found here:
> https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/wiki/Crime-in-Downtown-Houston,-Texas-:-Combining-ggplot2-and-Google-Maps).
> Excellent page by the way. I have downloaded the data and the code and want
> to learn how to do this by first simulating David's results and then working
> it through line by line to make sure I understand what every line of code
> does and then applying it to my own data. When I run the code however, it
> breaks on the following line:
>
> df <- suppressMessages(join(df_xyll, m_map, type = 'right'))
>
> I do not seem to have the join() function. This looks almost SQLish. I have
> tried ??join and looking on CRAN and a google search but I cannot find this
> function. Is there a special library that one has to install for this to
> work? Can anyone help please.
>
> Best regards
> Christiaan
>
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