nc.shp {sp}R Documentation

North Carolina county boundaries (shapefile)

Description

North Carolina county boundaries in shapefile (ArcView and ArcGIS) format for counties from the 1990 census.

Usage

data(ncshp)

Format

The format is as read by read.shape in the maptools package

Source

http://sal.agecon.uiuc.edu/stuff/data.html

Examples

## Not run: 
library(maptools)
nc.shp <- read.shape(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1])
## End(Not run)
data(ncshp)
nc1 <- as.SpatialPolygons.Shapes(nc.shp$Shapes, as.character(nc.shp$att.data$FIPS))
plotSpatialPolygons(nc1)
invisible(text(getSpPPolygonsLabptSlots(nc1), labels=getSpPPolygonsIDSlots(nc1), cex=0.6))

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