polys.setup {GJRM}

Set up geographic polygons

Description

This function creates geographic polygons in a format suitable for smoothing.

Usage

polys.setup(object)

Arguments

object

An RDS file object as extracted from http://www.gadm.org.

Value

It produces a list with polygons (polys), and various names (names0, names1 - first level of aggregation, names2 - second level of aggregation).

Author(s)

Maintainer: Giampiero Marra [e-mail]

Thanks to Guy Harling for suggesting the implementation of this function.

Examples

?hiv