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Hi, In another thread ("PBSmapping and shapefiles") I asked for an easy way to read "shapefiles" and transform them in data that PBSmapping could use. One person is exploring some ways of doing this, but it is possible I'll have to do this "manually". With package "maptools" I am able to extract the information I need from a shapefile but it is

Hi, Is there a way, preferably with R, to read shapefiles and transform them in a format that I could then use with package PBSmapping? I have been able to read such files into R with maptools' read.shape and plot it with plot.Map, but I'd like to bring the data to PBSmapping and plot from there. I also looked at the package shapefile, but it does not seem to do what I want