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### DATA PREP ###
# loading the unemployment data
unempl <- read.delim2(file="./data/data_germany_unemployment_by_
                     county.txt", header = TRUE, sep = "\t",
                     dec=",", stringsAsFactors=F)

# due to Mac OS encoding, otherwise not needed
gadm_names <- iconv(gadm$NAME_3, "ISO_8859-2", "UTF-8")   

# fuzzy matching of data: quick & dirty

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library(sp)
library(RColorBrewer)

# get spatial data for Germany on county level
con <- url("http://gadm.org/data/rda/DEU_adm3.RData")
print(load(con))
close(con)

# plot Germany with random colors
col = rainbow(length(levels(gadm$NAME_3)))