Remove border lines in ggplot map/choropleth
I would like to remove the lines between regions of a choropleth generated in ggplot . My question is motivated by a very large map with very very small regions (census block groups) that are so numerous that it's impossible to see the color filling the shape given the density of the borders. I'm using updated RStudio on a Mac with ggplot2 version 1.0.0; the same problem does not seem to occur on Windows. Here are examples (using counties) that have different colors for each county so that the borders are not necessary. The first uses purple borders for emphasis. The second has color = NA