printing output of google geomap as image using R

Question

I am using googlevis package to plot a geographic map. The output I get is HTML. Is it possible to generate jpg or png output?

Answer 1

Following Andrew tip I suggest to take a look at the RgoogleMaps package. It seems to provide what you are looking for.

Answer 2

You could also try the osmar package which uses the data from OpenStreetMap.