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Hi there, I have two data sets, one of locations at different elevations (x,y,z) and the other of points that make up topographic contours (also x,y,z). I have used: result<-apply(distppll(data2,cbind(topocon[-nrow(topocon),],topocon[-1,])),1,min) where 'data2' are my measurement coordinates (x, y) and 'topocon' are my topographic contours (x,y). While this gives me an output of the distance from each data point to the nearest topographic contour point, I would also...

Dear R users, I know that this could easily be solved within a GIS-package, but sometimes it's more convenient to use R. So here's my question anyway... Does anyone of you know about any R-functions/code that calculates the distance between a number points and a polygon or polyline? I have looked thru the different libraries that deals with spatial statistics but haven't found