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Comment by bajsejohannes

How can you tell that it definitely was not done in R? He says

> As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world.

His plot doesn't "know" about the world - he is just drawing curves between points in a plane (lat. and long.). I haven't used R, but I am sure that would be possible.

parent bajsejohannes 16 years ago

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