R: Meta-data about administrative districts of Germany

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## Meta-data about administrative districts of Germany

### Description

Data for the display of data over the administrative districts of Germany

### Format

`germany.info` is a list with elements

n

  544 (number of districts around 1990).

xrep,yrep

  representative coordinates of the districts (vectors of length 544)

xlim,ylim

  2-vectors defining the limits of the districts.

polyid

  linking the polygons to the districts (599 vector).

id

  linking the districts to Community Identification Number.

`germany.poly` defines the polygons. It is a 17965 by two matrix, each polygon separated by a row of `NA`s, each district by two rows.
`germany` defines the polygons in form of a list (backwards compatibility).

### Details

The representative coordinates are calculated based on the mean value of the polygon coordinates. This creates sometimes strange values, e.g., district Leer.

### Author(s)

Reinhard Furrer

### References

The meta-data has been constructed based on (essentially) files from the package INLA, see `demo(Bym)`.

See also http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtlicher_Gemeindeschl%C3%BCssel and http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Landkreise_in_Deutschland

### See Also

`germany.plot` `Oral`.

### Examples

    # Plot the Bundeslaender:
    germany.plot(germany.info$id%/%1000,col=rep(2:8,3), legend=FALSE)

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