A simple guide to plotting maps in R using the High-resolution map data of the World. Examples are given for plotting the whole world, a selection of individual countries, a map of the United Kingdom or adding locations to your map.
M. Atzmueller, und F. Lemmerich. International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Seite 35--44. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2009)